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09/04/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #589 - 9/4/2026

Today's top stories:
- Centene exits CA/OR commercial markets
- Psilocybin shows promise for chemo protection
- Hospital backlash against new CMS rules

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Human-in-the-Loop Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): Centene is leaving the commercial group markets in CA and OR - doubling down on "publicly funded health coverage" - Medicare, Medicaid, ACA and ICHRA markets. Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center found that psilocybin can he...

09/03/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #588 - 9/3/2026

Today's top stories:
- Employer health costs to spike in 2027
- Healthy Blue exiting Louisiana Medicaid
- Designing hospitals for better patient outcomes

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): Re-modeling the Emergency Room, reimagining layouts with inspiration from organizations like Disney, and with an eye to saving more lives. See the WSJ piece below. We know ACA health insurance rates will increase again in 2027 - but l...

09/02/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #587 - 9/2/2026

Today's top stories:
- UnitedHealthcare drops various prior auths
- CDC challenges PA measles death reports
- Health systems tackle homelessness

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): UnitedHealthcare announced that it will remove prior authorization requirements for a wide range of medical services, including cardiology, genetic testing, and various therapies, starting October 1, 2026. Above is not for United's Me...

09/01/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #586 - 9/1/2026

Today's top stories:
- MD sues UnitedHealth for system defects
- Eli Lilly acquires Merida Biosciences
- FL AG sues PBMs over price-fixing

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): The CMS Innovation Center ("CMMI") is a federal office that pilots 'demonstration projects' via grants. They've been around for over 10 years and we flagged the item because CMMI is now making data from these projects available to the...

08/31/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #585 - 8/31/2026

Today's top stories:
- Gene editing for cholesterol
- Pharma’s massive patent cliff
- Benefits of combining cardio & weights

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): A small clinical test shows that a gene editing technique could effectively do the job of statins to manage chlesterol. The advantage of such an intervention is that it could be long lasting. Pharma companies typically get a 17 year p...

08/29/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #584 - 8/29/2026

Today's top stories:
- Lindsay Clancy trial & postpartum psychosis
- Cancer treatment wait times & insurance
- Protein research in autism & pancreatic cancer

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): The Lindsay Clancy trial is about to come to a jury's deliberation. Clancy admits to killing her 3 children. The deeper story (see the NYT podcast below) is more complicated and concerns the general issue of post partum psychosis. Pos...

08/28/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #583 - 8/28/2026

Today's top stories:
- No Surprises Act: Arbitration costs rising
- Florida: Medicaid funds controversy
- Women's Health: Profit-driven innovation

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Editor's Notes (see table further below for links and summaries): In the NY Times today, a follow-up piece on how pharma companies are targeting the KRAS protein - hoping to get results in lung and colon cancer (as well as pancreatic cancer). The Feds (HHS) are launching an initiative to challenge c...

08/27/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #582 - 8/27/2026

Today's top stories:
- FDA approves pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib
- CMS state-directed payment rule faces legal pushback
- US life expectancy reaches 79; Dolly Parton passes at 80

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Editor's Notes: Huge news as the FDA approves a blockbuster drug for pancreatic cancer from Revolution Medicine: daraxonrasib. We've followed the trial of this drug for the past 6 months- including an interview with former Senator Ben Sasse (a patient) - but now this medication is FDA approved. It's...

08/26/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #581 - 8/26/2026

Today's top stories:
- Measles deaths reported in PA amid rising cases
- NFL players show 25% CTE prevalence
- ER wait times exceed 2.5 hours nationally

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Editor's Notes: A few of you have asked us if the "editor's notes" are AI - generated. Nope! human written (at least I think they are!) CMS reports we spend an average of 2.5 hours waiting in ERs for treatment. Experts warn this could get worse as federal/state funding cuts kick-in, and as more unin...

08/25/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #580 - 8/25/2026

Today's top stories:
- Rising employer health costs projected for 2027
- Black market surge for unapproved weight-loss drugs
- CMS launches QualTech for innovation

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Editor's Notes: Talking with some of our readers today - who pointed out something interesting: Among the top 20 Fortune 500 companies, fully 5 of them are health insurers. #1 is Amazon. We're not saying that's a good or bad thing - but it's a surprising thing (at least to us). States are trying to

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