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How Medicaid subsidizes employers

3 days ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

How are Republicans trying to sell a bad bill? They tell lie after lie about how only able-bodied adults who refuse to go to work will be affected by their One Big Ugly Bill. “That single mom that’s working two or three jobs right now to make ends meet under this tough economy, she doesn’t want to have to pay for somebody who’s sitting at home," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said. When Sen.
Hospitals' unseemly lobbying campaign

5 days ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Hospital lobbyists are swarming around Republican senators this week in hopes they will soften the direct cuts to hospital funding contained in the Senate version of Trump’s Gut-Medicaid-to-Give-Tax-Breaks-to-the-Rich legislation. “Hospitals are now lobbying senators to return to the House’s version of the bill,” according to reporters for StatNews. Oh, you mean the House version that will cut 11 million from Medicaid rolls over the next decade?
Podcast: "Donny's Death Panels"

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -26:26Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. With Fox News amplifying the war drums beating along the Potomac, the Republican “tax” bill, which will impose the most drastic health care and social service spending cuts in U.S. history, has largely fallen off the mainstream media’s radar screens.
Radical opacity

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at first promised “radical transparency” at all agencies within his department. Then he fired almost all the freedom of information staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health; cancelled meetings of FDA and CDC advisory committees that review vaccines and vaccine policies; and held meetings of his Make America Healthy Again Commission behind closed doors.
Not telling it like it is

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Before getting to the news, I proudly served as an Indivisible Illinois marshal during the No Kings Day march on Saturday where more than 75,000 people marched peacefully through the streets of downtown Chicago. Over the course of nearly four hours, I engaged in just three preventive interventions. Before the march, a couple of skateboarders climbed to the top of a bus shelter near the rear of the rally site.
It's official! The rich get richer, the poor get poorer

2 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

The Congressional Budget Office released its distribution analysis of the “Gut Social Services to Give More Money to the Rich” bill now before the Senate. Here’s the CBO chart mapping the distribution effects by population deciles (tenths of the population):The dark green portions of the bars represent declines to income through cuts to federal and state programs like Medicaid, Medicare and food stamps. The light green bars represent increased income from tax breaks and other cash transfers.
Medicare is in the GOP's crosshairs, too

2 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

When it comes to health care, most public protests against the “One Big Beautiful” tax giveaway have focused on its vicious Medicaid cuts. More attention needs to be paid to how the House-passed legislation will also harm Medicare’s most vulnerable beneficiaries.
Defending democracy and health care

2 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

I’ve spent much of the past two days mulling the significance of the Trump regime sending National Guard troops into Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom did not ask for them. Mayor Karen Bass did not ask for them. The tens of thousands of city and state police available to Newsom and Bass were more than adequate to curtail the vandalism perpetrated by some demonstrators during the weekend’s protests against the large-scale ICE raids in the city. Trump’s action has only one precedent in recent history.
Podcast: One mother's search for a cure

3 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -41:39Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The Food and Drug Administration’s new leadership held a “listening session” on Thursday to learn more about the exciting new gene, cell and immunologic therapies being developed for rare diseases in U.S. research labs. You’ve probably seen or heard about many of them in your news feeds: Gene editing; CAR-T, targeted antibodies.
Under Trump, the future of research is in Asia

3 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

This week, two items related to the future of medical research, and the prices that Americans will pay for drugs, caught my eye. First, the Trump regime’s proposed budget for 2026 will slash $18 billion or nearly 40% from the 26 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health.