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Bob Herman

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Health care business reporter for @statnews and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: [email protected] or bobjherman.09 on Signal.

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“I have never seen racial discrimination by the government like this,” said a judge who has spent 40 years on the bench. statnews.com/2025/06/16/nih…

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Remarkable how hospitals are lobbying to keep the House version of the tax bill. House version still would force millions of people off their health insurance — but importantly, it'd protect hospitals' revenue in special Medicaid arrangements. statnews.com/2025/06/20/tru…

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That happens when #ACIP recommendations are no longer science based? When #CDC's vaccine schedules include recommendations based on opinions, not data? We're heading towards a balkanization of vaccination recommendations, experts fear. statnews.com/2025/06/24/vac…

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BREAKING: Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned prize-winning TV journalist, has died at 91. apnews.com/article/bill-m…

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NEW: In Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, a case about the structure of a task force with the power under the Affordable Care Act to determine which preventive services insurers must cover, the court holds that members do not need to be appointed by the president and confirmed by

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The Affordable Care Act survives another trip to SCOTUS. Health insurers will continue to cover top-graded preventive services for free, but RFK (and other future HHS secretaries) have a lot of power over the independent body that grades those services. statnews.com/2025/06/27/sup…

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Yes, the series of errors is known as "the entire U.S. health care system." A truly outrageous story from Julie Appleby kffhealthnews.org/news/article/b…

Yes, the series of errors is known as "the entire U.S. health care system." A truly outrageous story from <a href="/Julie_appleby/">Julie Appleby</a> 
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NEW: Inside "Operation Gold Rush," the government's biggest Medicare fraud bust ever. For years, people got mysterious bills for catheters. Feds now say more than 1 million Americans' information was compromised in $10B-plus scheme. w Lauren Weber washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06…

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Republicans are one step closer to gutting Medicaid and other health care programs, as Trump's tax bill clears Senate. Still a ways to go. Follow John Wilkerson, Daniel Payne, & 🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo: statnews.com/2025/07/01/sen…

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Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. x.com/lydiadepillis/…

Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage.  x.com/lydiadepillis/…
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This comes as a surprise to many people because so much of health costs are not out-of-pocket (aside from drugs), and are instead shrouded behind insurance premiums that eat into wages and increase by 5-7% a year.

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🚨HOUSE PASSES RECONCILIATION BILL, HEADS TO W.H. FOR TRUMP'S SIGNATURE VOTE WAS 218-214 GOP NO VOTES: FITZPATRICK MASSIE