December 30, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 22, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Healthcare
December 24, 2025
IVF treatments for same-sex couples to be covered by Aetna in national settlement
(CBS News) – Last week, in a landmark settlement, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Haywood Gilliam Jr. approved a preliminary agreement for the class action lawsuit requiring Aetna to cover fertility treatments for same-sex couples — … Read More
December 24, 2025
A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 23, 2025
Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves
(NYT) – People over 65 represent prime targets for such medications. “The prevalence of obesity hovers around 40 percent” in older adults, as measured by body mass index, said Dr. John Batsis, a geriatrician and obesity specialist at the University … Read More
December 23, 2025
It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?
(KFF Health News) – Other families around the country have also recently had their access to the therapy challenged as state officials make deep cuts to Medicaid — the public health insurance that covers people with low incomes and disabilities. … Read More
December 23, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 20, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 22, 2025
America’s Seniors Are Overmedicated
(WSJ) – A Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data found one in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time. Schmidt, who lives with her husband of 65 years in … Read More
December 19, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 19, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 16, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 18, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 15, 2025
Insurance denied an $800,000 drug twice. A state-run outside panel helped a North Carolina teen get it.
(The Guardian) – A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers. When insurance twice refused to cover a nearly $800,000-a-year drug that Paxton Pope’s doctor believed … Read More
December 12, 2025
Drugmakers Are Ditching Middlemen to Sell Directly to Patients
(WSJ) – Companies are rolling out direct-to-patient services, which are selling drugs for weight loss and other uses Drugmakers are moving to sell their medicines directly to patients, abandoning the middlemen they have long relied on. The shift is a … Read More
December 10, 2025
$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?
(New York Times) – While I believe we should extend the subsidies, which expire at the end of the month, to help families pay their insurance premiums, doing so wouldn’t fix the underlying problem: surging health care spending. That’s the … Read More
December 9, 2025
The Business of Care (Part One)
(ProPublica) – The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is the story of American health care. I began to focus on the relationship between Phoebe’s breakneck growth and the rates of chronic illnesses among Albany’s residents and wondered whether the … Read More
December 8, 2025
Why Is Autism Exploding? Welfare Fraud Is One Reason
(WSJ) – Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria … Read More
December 5, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 17, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 3, 2025
They Need a Ventilator To Stay Alive. Getting One Can Be a Nightmare.
(KFF Health News) – Spinal cord injuries, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis have left tens of thousands of Americans permanently dependent on ventilators. The barriers these patients face offer a stark example of … Read More
December 1, 2025
Inside the World of Luigi Mangione’s Most Fervent Supporters
(Rolling Stone) – As the murder suspect’s legal battle continues, some fans swoon online while activist groups make him the face of health care and social-justice reform IN THE WORLD OF MANGIONE SUPPORTERS, there are different factions. There are those … Read More
December 1, 2025
This toddler’s nearly 40-minute ambulance ride cost his family $9,000
(Washington Post via MSN) – Darragh’s family doesn’t have health insurance, leaving them on the hook for the full charges. Their income is a bit too high for them to qualify for Medicaid, the public health program that covers low-income … Read More
November 28, 2025
Americans are buckling under medical bills. It could get worse.
(Politico) – Charities that help people pay for care say demand is way up. That’s before scheduled Medicaid and Obamacare cuts take effect. Financial assistance from the HealthWell Foundation, one of the largest charities in the country, is already 23 … Read More
November 26, 2025
Medicare negotiated lower prices for 15 drugs, including 71% off Ozempic and Wegovy
(NPR) – The federal government has announced the results of the latest round of Medicare drug price negotiations: 15 lower drug prices for Medicare to go into effect in 2027. Medicare will get a 71% discount on Ozempic, Wegovy and … Read More
November 25, 2025
California Is Tired of Letting People Die
(The Atlantic) – Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working? For the past 50 years, the city has tried to hide from this problem in much the same way Ashley hides from her own. The general consensus in America … Read More
November 25, 2025
A Battle with My Blood
(The New Yorker) – When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. On May 25, 2024, my daughter was born at 7:05 in the morning, ten minutes after … Read More
November 21, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 15, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 18, 2025
Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One.
(WSJ) – Many doctors listed in insurer networks treat few or no Medicaid recipients, leaving patients with long waits; ‘Don’t get sick.’ Private Medicaid insurers dominate the government healthcare program that covers more than 70 million low-income and disabled Americans. … Read More
November 18, 2025
Profits and False Promises
(Virginia Quarterly Online) – But buried beneath this evergreen drama of illness and cure, the promise of miracle biotech breakthroughs and heroic survivorship, is the story of how American business interests helped to steer politicians away from stopping the cancer … Read More
