News / healthcare
-
1 min read
Work Requirements Don't Create Jobs. They Create Paperwork.
Read more . . . →Nebraska just became the first state to tell poor people they need to file monthly paperwork proving they work 80 hours to keep their health insurance. Miss the form or confuse DHHS’s bureaucracy — coverage gone. Not because you stopped working. Because you failed a government quiz while sick and broke. This is what “work requirements” actually are. Not a ladder, not a job program — a filter. The Urban Institute says Nebraska alone will kick 25,000 people off Medicaid from this. The CBO found that work requirements will strip coverage from over 5 million Americans by 2034 and produce...
Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
1 min read
Your medication is a national security threat, apparently
Read more . . . →Trump just slapped 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals. Not generic drugs — those are conveniently exempt. Patented ones. The cancer treatments, the specialty biologics, the drugs that exist because no generic alternative does yet. It kicks in July 31st for some companies and September 29th for the rest — right in time for your prescription costs to spike as the weather cools. The national security justification is real, in writing, in the presidential proclamation. The idea that your rheumatoid arthritis medication threatens American military readiness is the kind of logic that sounds like satire until you remember we’re fully in...
Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
1 min read
Trump Just Slapped a 100% Tariff on Your Prescription Drugs
Read more . . . →The man who got slapped down by the Supreme Court for illegal tariffs two months ago just put a 100% tariff on patented prescription drugs. One hundred percent. As in, your medication now costs double at the border before it even hits a pharmacy shelf. This isn’t some abstract trade war number — this is insulin, cancer treatment, the stuff people literally die without. But sure, let’s “bolster national security” by making it financially ruinous to stay alive. The kicker is the carve-out. If you’re a massive pharma company willing to cut a deal with the administration — “Most Favored...
Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo.