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Use of Weight Loss Drugs Costly, Widespread
As obesity rates in the United States soar, insurance companies, including Medicaid and Medicare, are facing financial headwinds to pay for prescription drugs for weight loss. Semaglutide, the generic name for Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Ozempic, is an injectable medication using GLP-1 agonists (incretin mimetic drugs) to trigger the pancreas to release the right amount of…
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Psychiatric Hospitals Hold Patients Involuntarily—for Money
In-patient mental health and drug abuse facilities across the country are holding patients involuntarily, now aided by a new Biden administration rule requiring insurers to cover the treatment equally with other hospital care. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges some in-patient facilities for psychological or drug abuse problems fraudulently kept people hospitalized…
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ACA Quality of Coverage Is Getting Worse
Enrollees in Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans are being buffeted not just by higher premiums but also by a marked decline in the quality of coverage available to them compared to what is offered in employer-sponsored insurance, a new study states. While acknowledging many factors go into the selection of an individual health insurance…
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Man Dies After Mental Health Care Denied on Obamacare Plan
A man struggling with alcoholism died after trying unsuccessfully for months to find a mental health therapist covered by his Obamacare plan. An NPR/ProPublica report describes in depth the events preceding Ravi Coutinho’s May 2023 death, apparently from an accident involving a relapse into alcohol abuse while alone in his Phoenix apartment. Coutinho’s Ambetter plan,…
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Managerialism Is Destroying Medicine -Commentary
By Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. Americans are rapidly losing trust in the medical profession. The percentage of U.S. adults who are confident medical scientists act in the best interests of the public declined from 40 percent in 2020 to 29 percent in 2022, according to Pew research. A 2021 survey by the American Board of Internal Medicine found one…
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‘Skyrocketing’ Chronic Illness Rates Prompt Concerns in Congress
With health care expenditures soon to reach 19 percent of U.S. Gross National Product (GDP), the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee announced the formation of a bipartisan caucus to investigate the escalating incidence of chronic disease and how best to stop it. Rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s disease “are skyrocketing,” said Health…
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Medical Groupthink Makes People Sicker, Analysts Argue
Medicine has a huge “blind spot” that has led to an explosion of childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, peanut allergies, and autoimmune diseases in the United States, says Martin Makary, M.D., author of the bestselling book Blind Spots. “We have the sickest population in the history of the world … right here in the United States,…
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Speech: ‘Silicon Curtain’ Is Protecting Government Censorship
Citing Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” metaphor describing the Cold War division of Europe, health care policy expert Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told an audience, “We are now in the middle of a Silicon Curtain of censorship descending across the previously free West.” In a keynote address at The Heartland Institute’s Benefit Dinner in Chicago on September…
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RFK Jr. Reveals Health Care Agenda
Despite dropping out of the race for president in August, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is turning up the volume on reforming national health care and drug policy and attracting attention to what role he might play in an administration depending on the outcome of the November election. Kennedy has endorsed former President Donald Trump, and…
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AGs Question Pediatricians Pushing Trans Treatment
Attorney generals from 20 states and legislators from Arizona signed an interrogatory letter to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) about the group’s support of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. “Often the AAP has exercised its influence responsibly,” states the…
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