Caroline Catherman

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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RFK Jr., DOGE gutted legally required offices. Courts may undo it all. Federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only – with minimal or no staff – is an unconstitutional power grab.

HHS insists legally-required programs are still running. Workers on those programs tell us otherwise.

“The idea that you can have a program with no people in it and no money in it, and that somehow, then you have not eliminated it — that’s just smoke and mirrors”
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Amid rising costs, self-funded health plans are getting a makeover A new wave of self-funded plans is shifting from cost cutting to value building, with health systems along for the ride.

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Florida Legislature approves ‘free kill’ malpractice law repeal “We are thrilled,” Brevard County advocate Lauren Korniyenko said. “The Legislature has listened to the voice of the people and repealed a 35-year-old unjust law.”

This is huge. FL was the only state with this kind of limit on who could sue for malpractice after a loved one's death. When I was an Orlando reporter, I talked to families who had pushed for this reform for decades.
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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

State drug-pricing boards are gaining momentum Experts say more states may follow after judge dismisses Amgen lawsuit.

Have you heard of state drug-pricing boards? If not, you're about to: www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

HHS firings could face legal challenges over inaccuracies, process used to make cuts A week after widespread cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, many workers are left wondering: Was that legal?

A week after widespread cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, many workers are left wondering: Was that legal?

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Medicare, Medicaid won’t be required to cover GLP-1s for obesity, CMS says Insurers have warned the proposed requirement would be costly.

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Are doctors liable when AI makes a mistake? Malpractice experts weigh in. You can’t spell malpractice without A and I.

Artificial intelligence is supposed to make errors less common. But what happens if it doesn’t?

@cecatherman.bsky.social spoke with medical malpractice experts to try to understand who's liable when AI makes a mistake in healthcare.

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Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect.

Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

Breaking News: The top vaccine official at the FDA abruptly resigned, saying that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” were irresponsible.