Caroline Catherman

Experts deny the marketplace is entering a ‘death spiral’ “The reports of my death spiral have been greatly exaggerated.”—the ACA marketplace, if it could talk.

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Senate rejects dueling health care bills as Obamacare deadline looms The result virtually guarantees insurance subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans will lapse at the end of the year.

BREAKING: The Senate rejected dueling health care bills, virtually guaranteeing Obamacare subsidies will lapse for over 20 million Americans.

Senate pushes forward with boat strike probe as House pulls back Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker said he would “listen to his colleagues.”

Senate pushes forward with boat strike probe as House pulls back

Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew The president also said he would not have wanted a second strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs, which occurred after U.S. forces realized the initial attack left two survivors, as The Post report...

President Trump said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Trump Says He’ll ‘Permanently Pause’ Migration From ‘Third World Countries’ Trump attacked immigrants living in the U.S., claiming without evidence that most of them were from “failed nations” or from “prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”

Trump attacked immigrants living in the U.S., claiming without evidence that most of them were from “failed nations” or from “prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”

Panic Tears Through U.S. as Health Insurance Costs Spike - The American Prospect The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance.

"One constituent, a retired marketing executive named Susan, told him that she’s currently paying about $600 a month with ACA tax credits. Next year, that will jump to $2,120, a 250 percent increase." prospect.org/2025/11/21/a...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top regulator of drugs, has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of using his regulatory authority to inflict financial harm on a former business associate, STAT has learned.

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F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Resigns, and Is Sued by Drug Company

The FDA's top drug regulator claims retaliation:

George Tidmarsh abruptly resigned after officials began reviewing "serious concerns about his personal conduct."

Tidmarsh claimed a "toxic environment" at the FDA and said the review was retaliation for warnings about politics trumping science.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back Even after resolving other safety concerns, parents in Georgia can wait for months to be reunited with their children, often because of what advocates say are stringent requirements sought by the stat...

“These kids just sit in foster care,” a family law attorney said, “because mom and dad are working at Subway and can’t afford a four-bedroom house.”

With @wabe.org
(Published April 2024)

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

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Medicare doctor directory, a Trump team priority, launches with errors The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.

New: Trump officials unveiled a tool intended to help millions of Medicare patients pick their plans, as open enrollment begins today.

But the tool — a directory that was intended to match providers with their plans — was rife with errors, The Post found.

More here w/Akilah Johnson

More than 43,000 children dropped from KidCare program for nonpayment, report shows A state agency may have underestimated the number of children removed from subsidized health insurance in Florida, according to a report by the Florida Phoenix.

Florida is violating federal law for children covered by CHIP and thousands are losing coverage. The Trump Adminstrarion is not enforcing the law.

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State reveals how many kids lost health coverage after being unable to do so in Senate committee • Florida Phoenix Florida’s top Medicaid official came before the Legislature Tuesday to update state senators on a pending legal battle with the federal government over expansion of the popular children’s health insur...

Latest from Florida - as the # of uninsured kids rises in FL, the bipartisan CHIP expansion continues to be stalled by the Governor.

State reveals how many kids lost health coverage after being unable to do so in Senate committee floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/07/s...

Perimenopause is the new buzzword in the business of women’s health Perimenopause brings real symptoms and a booming market of supplements, apps, and therapies. What’s hype, what’s helpful, and what women need to know.

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How leeches (yes, leeches!) are used in medicine today Leeches. Why did it have to be leeches?

This one was fun

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Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...

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I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

CMS’s kidney transplant overhaul has begun Could financial incentive be the secret ingredient to solving the kidney crisis?

“Given the number of people in need of a transplant and the better health and quality of life outcomes associated with a transplant, we need to find ways to improve the status quo.” -LaVarne Burton, president and CEO
@kidneyfund.bsky.social

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IVF can cost $50k. Future Family wants to make it refundable The company began offering a “baby or your money back” guarantee in February.

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How Republicans sidelined the health care industry and pushed through historic Medicaid cuts The passage of President Trump's signature tax cut bill shows how the health care industry's influence is waning.

The passage of President Trump's signature tax cut bill shows how the health care industry's influence is waning.
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Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian Late Friday, Senate GOP unveiled changes to health care policies in tax legislation in a bid to win over Republican holdouts and pass muster with budget rules.

Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian www.statnews.com/2025/06/28/s... Great weekend work via John Wilkerson and @danielpayne.bsky.social for @statnews.com

Recalled ventilator was so easy to hack, ‘a teenager’ could have done it ‘Secure by design’ isn’t just a tech buzzword.

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The future of Florida’s unique ‘free kill’ malpractice law Under the current law, people over 25 years old without a legal spouse or kids under 25 are out of luck in the state.

A unique FL law makes it effectively impossible to sue if medical malpractice kills a person aged 25+, unmarried, and without kids. (That's a lot of us, including me.) An attempt to overturn the law was recently vetoed. Read about potential industry impacts:

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Exclusive: The Onion has opened a creative agency America’s Finest Creative Agency is “like a writer’s room and like a strategic and conceptual laser in your pocket,” The Onion’s CMO Leila Brillson said.

Very exciting news: The Onion has started a creative agency.

We've been doing this quietly for months, so if you've seen a funny ad somewhere, it may be us. But now it is a whole-ass company.

Anyway, we have killed Don Draper for a second time and revived his drunk ghost. Contact me to access him.

CRISPR’s new era: Hope, hype, and hard truths It’s cutting-edge medicine—literally.

Remember CRISPR? I checked in with some leading researchers, doctors, and bioethicists on how it's being used today and what its future holds. www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

UnitedHealth Group CEO resigns We thought Q1 was bad, but this is another level.

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