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Today in Obamacare: Atul Gawande explains why Obamacare repeal is terrible for science
Vox - Julia Belluz
The unintended effects of an ACA repeal on disease research. It’s not just patients: researchers are worried about the fate of the preexisting conditions clause Republicans have promised to repeal and
Medical Research
How Shared Decision Making In The Emergency Department Can Improve Value
healthaffairs.org
More than 8 million U.S. emergency departments (ED) visits are from patients with chest pain, which is the second most common reason to visit an ED. …
The opioid epidemic could turn into a pandemic if we’re not careful
The Washington Post
By Robert Gebelhoff Robert Gebelhoff Opinions contributor focusing on health, science and public policy. Email Bio Follow Assistant editor and Opinions contributor The scourge of opioid addiction in the
Health Insurers Say They Don't Want To Go Back To Being The Bad Guys
NPR - NPR Staff
President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders have been working to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. And the millions of Americans who have health insurance through the Obamacare marketplaces
With no allies, Republicans step away from precipice of repeal
The Washington Post
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer As they struggle to figure out how to deliver on the most important (and repeated) promise they made to their
Looking for a really good Obamacare replacement? Here it is
Los Angeles Times - By David Lazarus
Supporters of healthcare reform may feel disheartened as President Trump and Republican lawmakers prepare to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with … well, something. They can't even agree
Why Republican efforts to "repair" Obamacare are doomed to fail
Vox - Matthew Yglesias
They have a new buzzword but still no plan. Republicans have a new idea on the path forward for the Affordable Care Act. Or, rather, in lieu of a new idea they have a new buzzword: repair. It was suggested
A drug company hiked the price of a lifesaving opioid overdose antidote by 500 percent
Vox - Julia Belluz
Where’s the outrage? In 1971, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug that could reverse a heroin or opioid overdose. More than 40 years later, makers of this drug, called naloxone, are
Why Trump’s “America First” Policy Is Doomed to Fail
The New Yorker - Terence Szuplat
The two words came eight minutes into President Trump’s Inaugural Address, and were delivered with the now-familiar gesticulations. “America first,” he declared, his right arm bouncing with each word,
The Strange Mental Quirk That’s Endangering the Public’s Health
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
By and “Actions have consequences,” as the saying goes. Inaction, by contrast, is a mostly neutral state of being—or so it often seems in our mind’s …
Patients Are Ditching Opioid Pills for Weed
The Atlantic - Sarah Zhang
Can marijuana help solve the opioid epidemic? James Feeney, a surgeon in Connecticut, heard it from his patients. A few actually turned down his prescription for oxycodone, the popular opioid painkiller