lunes, 19 de octubre de 2026
How the No Surprises Act’s nonprofit arbitrators are operating like ‘mini gods’ and getting rich doing it The law is protecting patients, but it’s also enriching a slew of middlemen and health care providers By Tara BannowOct. 19, 2026
https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/19/no-surprises-act-billing-arbitration-profits-stat-investigation/
Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder Nature | October 19, 2026
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/19/viewpoint-selective-pronatalism-the-radical-ethical-case-challenging-parents-right-to-end-a-pregnancy-when-a-fetus-has-a-severe-genetic-disorder/
Even if polygenic embryo screening worked exactly as advertised, it could still do real social damage. That’s the argument from Gaia Ghirardi of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Arno Van Hootegem of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and K. Paige Harden of the University of Texas at Austin in a correspondence published in Nature Human Behaviour.
‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration NBC News | October 19, 2026
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/19/blatant-slap-in-the-face-maha-activists-turn-on-rfk-jr-and-trump-administration/
A group of “Make America Healthy Again” activists, including former members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign, says the Trump administration has broken more than 85% of its promises on food, agriculture and environmental health, as NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin and Aria Bendix report. The MAHA scorecard accuses the administration of doing favors for the chemical industry by approving new pesticides and hiring industry lobbyists and executives.
Viewpoint: ‘Statistical murder’: Kennedy’s expanding record of “duplicity and mendacity” Henry Miller | October 19, 2026
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/19/viewpoint-statistical-murder-kennedys-expanding-record-of-duplicity-and-mendacity/
Public health disasters do not always begin with a new pathogen.Sometimes they begin with a government official who teaches people to distrust proven means of protecting themselves.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has elevated that practice into a governing philosophy. His falsehoods, conspiratorial thinking, and institutional sabotage make him an enemy of the American people. The consequences extend beyond degraded public discourse. They include untold numbers of preventable illness and the foreseeable loss of human life.
PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication Jon Entine, Mark McDaniel, Thomas Redick | October 19, 2026
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/19/pfas-in-agriculture-science-uncertainty-and-risk-communication/
PFAS contamination raises legitimate health and environmental concerns, but this diverse family of thousands of chemicals should not be treated as uniformly dangerous, and some safe uses currently lack viable substitutes.
This paper examines how alliances among anti-chemical activists, opponents of conventional agriculture, and tort lawyers often blur those distinctions—weaponizing reasonable concerns and scientific uncertainty to advance ideological goals and litigation profits, with farmers, both conventional and organic, in the crosshairs.
Upcoming Event: An Emerging Tool to Prevent Medical Debt
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An Emerging Tool to Prevent Medical Debt
Most hospitals offer financial assistance to patients who struggle to afford their bills, often referred to as charity care. But many people are stymied by cumbersome aid applications. Others don’t even know help exists.
Hospitals can proactively screen patients to see if they’re eligible for aid and, if so, automatically wipe out or reduce their bills — a process known as presumptive eligibility.
A growing number of state policymakers and researchers believe requiring hospitals to use presumptive eligibility would protect low-income Americans from falling into medical debt, especially with federal funding cuts expected to increase the number of people without health insurance. Some hospital leaders resist new requirements, arguing in part that they put unfair responsibility on hospitals to address rising patient costs and a shrinking safety net.
Oregon passed the most comprehensive presumptive eligibility law in 2023. A similar law in California — originally opposed by hospitals — is set to take effect in July 2027. Los Angeles County public health officials have been working with local hospitals to make the new rules easier for them to implement.
In this live virtual event on Thursday, October 22 at 2 p.m. ET, KFF Health News senior correspondent Noam Levey and Tradeoffs reporter Melanie Evans will share their reporting about this emerging policy solution and the challenges that remain. They will be joined by policymakers and hospital officials from Oregon and Los Angeles, who will share their experiences, obstacles they faced and lessons learned.
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