This has made me smile every day since it happened. #GoBlue

A doctor had to stop researching a rare disease because insurance companies are making her spend time writing prior authorizations for different injection pen sizes of med+doses they already approved. Diff pen sizes needed due to drug shortage.

By Sydney Lupkin

First ribbons of the 2024 corgi specialty: Aspen was first and Wallace third in the recall class. Plus (stuffed) pizza!

Corgi-approved hotel for the Potomac corgi specialty! Fun starts tonight #corgicrew

NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner resigned this morning.

Among the many things that could be said, I will say this: thank you to my colleagues here in the newsroom today for your grace, collegiality and hard work during a challenging period.

And for showing up today,…

Nursing home staffing standards from CMSGov have cleared OMB, which means they could come out as soon as today 👀

Veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner suspended as network grapples with fallout over his essay - my story npr.org/2024/04/16/124…

We KFF plan to send John Oliver a job offer as a policy analyst working on Medicaid.

Corgis are not small dogs. They are medium/large dogs with very short legs. common misunderstanding.

my biggest pet peeve. Please stop trying to be my mother.

👏CMSGov for delaying changes to researchers' access to Medicare data. CMS is clearly being sensitive to concerns from the research community.

Now it's critical for researchers to work with CMS to find ways to guarantee data security and great scholarship going forward.

In South Dakota, the gap was 22 years.

'It's almost blasphemy for a physician to say,' but 'the answer to addressing these things is not hiring more doctors+nurses,' a Lakota doctor said. 'The answer is having more community-based preventions.'

For KFF Health News+CBS News:

Lots of news but here is something else we are watching... apnews.com/article/suprem… h/t Sara Just

Reading how precise the intel has been for this Iranian attack really reinforces how much Oct 7th was a colossal intelligence failure that warrants way more examination than has been made public.

Retractable leashes should be banned.

.Deena Prichep NPR All Things Considered

Dear Ms. Prichep,
Heard your reporting on the poetry hotline that’s happening this #NationalPoetryMonth could you tell us the number or what it’s called? I’d love to give it a try. ☎️🌸

Many thanks,
Piper

saved this story all day to read when I had filed my own story. Worth the wait.
washingtonpost.com/style/of-inter…

ooh, we'll have to pit Aspen against Bob Herman in the tik tok health policy video olympics...

Trump now says he won’t push to repeal the ACA, or touch Medicare. In election speak what this means is basic: the primaries are over and he doesn’t want to fight on turf favorable to Biden and democrats, or hand them attack lines.

We’ve lost a member of our PBS NewsHour family, and journalism has lost a giant.

My heart is with the family and friends of Robin MacNeil, co-founder and longtime co-anchor of the NewsHour.

His extraordinary legacy lives on in the work we do today.

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