From COVID-19 conspiracy theories to confusion on the facts about Medicare and Medicaid to refusing to say that vaccines aren’t linked to autismRobert F. Kennedy Jr.’s February confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill were anything but smooth for someone who is hoping to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. While his history of anti-vaccine […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wealth of Dr. Mehmet Ozthe celebrity heart surgeon nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serviceshas swelled in part from for-profit health care companies over which he’d wield significant power if confirmed, according to a newly filed government ethics report. In the filing, the 64-year-old […]
Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlanticwhich the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear, is not a difficult case. The question in Kerr is whether a federal law, which requires state Medicaid programs to guarantee that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” may obtain that care “from any institution, agency, community pharmacy, or person, […]
A 2022 regional study found that creatinine is an inadequate biomarker for kidney function in people in South Africa, Malawi and Uganda.Credit: Sandra Maytham-Bailey, ARK Study In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement forced the United States to reckon with systemic racism and its causes and manifestations. Driven partially by the disproportionate toll that the […]
Mark Cuban Says, ‘I Don’t Know Cars Or Rockets,’ But Schools Elon Musk On How American Health Insurance Works When Elon Musk took to X to question why Americans aren’t “getting their money’s worth” despite the United States leading the world in health care administrative costs, Mark Cuban stepped in with some tough truths. Cuban, […]
A salutogenic perspective to humans and society is needed to create a health system that promotes … [+] health rather than curing disease. ProSocial AI can be a catalyst to make that happen getty In the wake of the recent shooting involving Brian Thompson’s shooting, the societal fractures in the US healthcare systems are once […]
On Monday, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested Luigi Mangione in connection with last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. When Mangione’s identity became public, the online reaction around Thompson’s death went into overdrive; unlike most shootings, this one has brought a stream of support for the suspected killer rather than for the victim, […]
“Get Pete Hegseth on the phone!” It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose opinion Trump really wanted. Hegseth, now Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary […]
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met by many people online with a morbid sense of inevitability. The often callous nature of the US health care system has long been a point of wide discussion, with evidence piling up that the way […]
With the GOP regaining control of Congress, Republicans are looking to slash health care spending, specifically eyeing Medicaid cuts and work requirements. While those fights are almost certainly going to garner a lot of coverage, it’s important to also pay attention to some of the less splashy policies also on the chopping block. These might […]
