Thursday, October 31, 2024

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From The Commonwealth Fund announcement about its report, "Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries" (...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

More on Health Care and the Election

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Yesterday I posted Drew Altman's view of the health care issues that are most likely to be affected by the outcome of next Tuesday's...

KFF's CEO: Final Thoughts on Health Care and the Election

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Drew Altman heads the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation , a reliable source of health care data and analysis. His "Quick Take" ...

Toddler's Snake Bite Costs $290K+ to Treat

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Two-year-old Brigland Pfeffer was playing with his sibs in their San Diego backyard when he was bitten by a rattlesnake. Ouch!  His was one ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

"Climate change is the most significant threat to human health in the 21st century"

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That's the bottom line from Admiral Rachel L. Levine, M.D. , the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health. She's the guest on a podcast ...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Texas AG Sues Pediatrician for Providing Gender-Affirming Treatment

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Last week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dr. May Lau, a Dallas pediatrician and assistant professor at UT-Southwestern Medical Schoo...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Health Care Fraud: Texas Style

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On Oct. 15 a federal jury in Houston convicted  the owner of a firm that operated 14 pharmacies, on fifteen counts including conspiracy to c...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Health Care Policy and the 2024 Election

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The presidential campaign hasn't been much about health law, and up to two-thirds of adults are concerned about the lack of discussion ....
Friday, August 30, 2024

FTC's Final Rule on Noncompetes: Recent Developments

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Health Affairs has posted a new article by Erin C. Fuse Brown, Megha Reddy, and Christopher M. Whaley: "The FTC's Noncompete Rule:...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Hall Render on the Latest Ruling Against the FTC in Challenge to Its Noncompete Rule

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The good folks at Hall Render have posted an alert concerning last Thursday's injunction against enforcement of the FTC's final rul...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Texas Governor Abbott Weaponizes Charity Care

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Uncompensated care is a serious issue that requires a serious response from serious politicians. On Thursday, rather than doing something to...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

U.S. DOJ Closes Gun Show Loophole; Judge Kacsmaryk (Of Course) Blocks Rule (Of Course) in 4 States

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As I have noted before, firearm violence is a public-health disaster. The Justice Department has taken a major step in the effort to keep fi...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Health Care Fraud & Abuse: The Week in Review

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It's been a busy week-and-a-half on the health-fraud enforcement front. I like posting these DOJ/Office of Inspector General updates for...
Friday, July 19, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies (Part 2)

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The totally excellent health-policy journal, Health Affairs , posted an analysis of the likely impact of the death of the Chevron  doctrine...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies

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The New England Journal of Medicine today posted a Perspective piece  (apparently free, at least for now) by Rachel Sachs and Erin Fuse Brow...