Wednesday Links – Page 2 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Wednesday Links – 1 April 2026

MAHA at CPAC: Kennedy went after Froot Loops and bemoaned how Americans don’t know how to cook anymore. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief, warned about hospice fraud in California. And Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health and the acting director (of a sort) of the CDC, explained the value of repurposing already-approved drugs for new diseases. “This sounds geeky,” he told the crowd, “But it is really, really important.”
If you are low-skilled, poor, and overly optimistic, federal student loans are likely bad for you.
AI doing tax returns: “They struggled, hard, miscalculating the refund or amount owed to the Internal Revenue Service by an average of more than $2,000.” (NYT)
Some states are making up some or all of the reduction in federal subsidies for Obamacare. (NYT)
Sharing your health records with Microsoft’s Copilot. What could go wrong? (NYT)

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