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Special thanks to Joe Paduda to bringing back the best review of health wonkery on the web. Joe writes: Way back in the day Julie Ferguson and I came up with the idea of working with other health care bloggers to publish the best of each every couple of weeks…after a decade-long run we suspended it…

UK to pay more for pharmaceuticals? Prior distributions for regression coefficients. What is the “Rural Health Fund” Pedestrian deaths in the US (Part 1, 2) US physicians in private practice dropped from 60.1% (2012) to 42.2% (2024).

Impact of the government shutdown on health services. Why do patients with sickle cell disease disproportionately leave hospitals against medical advice? New estimates of upcoding. TrumpRx. “FDA will not be able to accept applications for new drugs, generics, biologics, biosimilars or medical devices that require payment of a user fee while the shutdown is in…

What is Double descent. Repeal of Noneconomic Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums. Reform of FDA use of external experts? Deep learning for solving economic models. Did RFK Jr. make former CDC Chief roll back vaccine policies without evidence?

Impact of robots on workers comp. What drives low income inequality in Nordic countries? Wean patients off GLP-1s? Ebola outbreak. Will Most Favored Nation backfire?

“NHS will pay diet apps who help to slim patients with weight-loss drugs” AI is creating new math. Denmark economy and Novo Nordisk. CDC resignations continue. Employer strategies for reference-based pricing of provider reimbursement.

Trump drug price ultimatum. Baumol cost disease: Child care vs. pet care & health care vs. veterinary care editions. Jennifer Doudna interview on CRISPR. AMA on PBMs. Life 30,000 feet underwater.

Meyer and Wyse: “Medicaid Expansion Reduced Mortality” Cannon response: “If…[Medicare and Medicaid]…were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market” and “Randomized Controlled Trials of Medicare and Medicaid, Please” L.A. Times to use the Green Bay Packers ownership model? Obesity: Diet > Exercise Privacy laws for brain data.

FDA: Fast-review vouchers to be tied to lower US prices Why FDA rejects drugs (in their own words) Kaiser Health News on prior authorizations. Measles: 1,288 cases in the US this year Impact of ChatGPT on language.

Trends in cost-related non-adherence. Optum Rx reduces reauthorization requirements. Changes in insulin out-of-pocket costs over time. AI and billable hours. Value in Health to include ‘Plan Language Summaries’