This is horrifying! Are you able to know if the cost increase is due to certain drugs no longer being covered by the same plan in 2026?

The judge intends to limit his order to universities in the plaintiff states (CA, MD, WA, AZ, CO, DE, HI, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, WI), members of the plaintiff orgs (APHA, UAW), and the researchers named directly, he said today.

His written opinion will come in the coming days.

Lee Jae-myung from the Democratic Party has been elected president of South Korea.

Medicare Part D Redesign Savings May Be Lower For Beneficiaries With Spending Below The Out-Of-Pocket Cap | Health Affairs Journal The Medicare prescription drug plan redesign under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 aims to simplify the Part D benefit while capping out-of-pocket spending for Part D–covered drugs. Whether and wh...

New paper out in #HealthAffairs on potential savings with the #InflationReductionAct in Medicare #PartD. Lots of savings for those needing specialty drugs but a note of caution for those with lower spending. Need to shop for a new plan if you take a preferred brand, especially in stand-alone plans!

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

NEWS: President Yoon REMOVED - UNANIMOUS DECISION

Housing-Related Disparities in Receipt of Breast Cancer Screening Among Women Medicaid Beneficiaries | JCO Oncology Practice PURPOSEPeople experiencing housing insecurity (PEHI) may face barriers to preventive cancer screening, but the extent to which PEHI receive screening at the population level is understudied. Therefore...

🚨Please find my last dissertation chapter on JCO Oncology Practice. We used a novel linkage of Medicaid and housing services data to examine housing-related disparities in receipt of cancer screening in a large cohort of Medicaid enrollees.

ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Table. Broker Financial Incentives and Possible Reforms

When they become eligible for Medicare, beneficiaries must choose to enroll in Medicare Advantage (MA) or traditional Medicare.

This Viewpoint discusses the differences between MA and traditional Medicare. https://ja.ma/3FzVLc0

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

I really feel for all the applicants who are robbed of opportunities to pursue their dreams of receiving higher education at an excellent institution like Pitt.

www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

I am very grateful for the opportunity to lead this work as part of my summer internship with @acscan.bsky.social. I want to thank the colleagues at ACS, including @drrobinyabroff.bsky.social for their mentorship!

End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Advanced Cancer This cohort study examines the current patterns of end-of-life care among older, fee-for-service Medicare decedents with advanced cancer.

‼️ My study examining the patterns of end-of-life care among Medicare decedents with advanced cancer is now out at JAMA Health forum.

Even in recent periods, many cancer pts receive potentially aggressive care at EOL at the expense of supportive care.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Survivor Views on Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Our latest survey finds that 86% of those receiving enhanced premium tax credits would have difficulty getting care if the credits expire at the end of 2025, and very few (25%) are aware of the enhanc...

86% of cancer patients & survivors who are able to purchase their health insurance on the Marketplace due to tax credits say they would have difficulty getting the care they need without these credits @acscan.bsky.social www.fightcancer.org/policy-resou...

I’m getting confirmation that #NIH grants that focused on improving health for #LGBT people are being defunded and ordered to stop immediately.

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

What Is Medicaid’s Value? This explainer discusses the value of Medicaid to its many beneficiaries.

Did You Know? Studies link Medicaid expansion to higher cancer diagnosis rates and improved care for chronic diseases. Medicaid expansion saves lives. Learn more about the value of Medicaid here. ⤵️

Dear fellow scientists, Go talk to the press about what is going on. Talk to local news about how it will impact jobs. Be specific, but don't pity yourself. Instead focus on how your own situation affects local jobs, the national economy, beating the growing scientific race with China. Suggestions:

Oh great

Americans are ditching traditional health care for something cheaper — and riskier An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.

I have been seeing so many ads for these pseudo-insurance programs everywhere, and I'm glad @vox.com reported on them!

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Mood

Millions of People with Medicare Will Benefit from the New Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending Cap Over Time | KFF In 2025, Medicare beneficiaries will pay no more than $2,000 out of pocket for prescription drugs covered under Part D, Medicare’s outpatient drug benefit, due to a provision in the Inflation Reductio...

Starting today, Medicare beneficiaries will have their annual out-of-pocket drug costs capped at $2,000 as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act.

www.kff.org/medicare/iss...

PDF preview image of "Incentivizing Network Adequacy in Medicare Advantage"

Viewpoint from John Graves and Gabrielle Lyons discusses enrollment in Medicare Advantage vs traditional Medicare among older adults and common reasons for plan disenrollment.

https://ja.ma/3VCyjA9