RealClearHealth Week of September 29, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 29
Prior Authorization Should Put Patients First
Andrea Gelzer DC Journal
Complexity in Medicine Cannot Be Reduced to a Billing Code
Ryan Nadelson STAT
Trump Administration Teases MFN Drug Pricing Rule
Angus Liu FiercePharma
'Most Favored Nation' Drug Pricing Is a Bad Deal for Patients
Gerard Scimeca RCH
Obamacare Premium Increases Paid for by Taxpayers
Mark Howell Paragon
Reform Obamacare; Don’t Spend More on It
John C. Goodman Goodman Institute
The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations
James Varney RCI
RFK Jr.'s Tylenol Attack Insults Women's Intelligence
Amanda Marcotte Salon
Trump’s Tylenol Cautions Are Just Common Sense
Adrian Gaty The Federalist
Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Timothy Spruill ACSH
Why Not Prescribe Sugar Pills for Everything?
Derek Thompson Substack
We Are the Slop
Freya India After Babel
Rookie Scientists Make Research Teams More Innovative
Katie Kavanagh Nature


Tuesday, September 30
'TrumpRx': White House Announces Deal with Pfizer
Andrews & Whyte WSJ via MSN
New York’s Non-Profit Hospitals Put Patients Last
Peter Pitts RealClearHealth
Unholy Alliance Between Progressives and Big Insurance
Staff Unleash Prosperity
How Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Affect US Health Care Costs
Alex Brill et al. AEI
Stand Up for Affordable Healthcare by Ending Trump’s Tariffs
Sally Pipes Forbes
Empowering Consumer Choice Through Facts Over Fear
Gregory Scimeca RCHealth
Plastics Pose ‘Urgent Threat’ to Children’s Lifelong Health
Pamela Ferdinand USRTK
Tylenol, Autism and the Perils of Basic-Level Literacy
Robert Pondiscio The74
Arkansas’s PBM Ban Is Unconstitutional Protectionism
Frank Francone RCHealth
DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Pharmacies Hits Wrong Enemy
Greg Rohrbough PJ Media
It's Been a Crazy News Cycle
Paul D. Thacker The DisInformation Chronicle
What the World's Oldest People Say About Aging Well?
Tobias Carroll InsideHook


Wednesday, October 1
Happy Schumer Shutdown Day
Staff Unleash Prosperity
The Democrats Finally Grew a Spine
Alex Shephard The New Republic
Gov't Is Shut Down. Some Dems Already Want to Cave.
Mychael Schnell MSNBC
Conservatives Dig in / Trump Broaches Obamacare Talks
Meredith Lee Hill Politico
Dems Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
Jacob Adams The Daily Signal
Doing Insurers’ Bidding and Shutting Down the Government
Brian Blase Paragon
Stop the Health Insurers' Raid on the Treasury
Stephen Moore Townhall
Health Care Subsidies Are a Political Shortcut
James C. Capretta The Dispatch
Tylenol: Evidence of Link to Autism 'Starting to Feel Heavy'
Tyler Durden ZeroHedge
Making Lawyers Wealthy Again: RFK, Jr., Tylenol, and Torts
David Zaruk GLP
SNAP Aims to Shift Shelves From Snacks to Staples
Chuck Dinerstein ACSH
'TrumpRx': White House Announces Deal with Pfizer
Andrews & Whyte WSJ via MSN
Pfizer-Trump Deal Blindsides Other Drug Companies
Owens & Sullivan Axios
New York’s Non-Profit Hospitals Put Patients Last
Peter Pitts RealClearHealth


Thursday, October 2
Dems Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
Brianna Lyman Federalist
Dems Did Not Shut Down Gov't Over Health Care to Illegals
Melissa Goldin AP
Fact Checking a 'Fact Checker' on Medicaid for Illegals
Jerry Rogers X
Dems Shut Down Gov't to Obscure Obamacare's Failures
Christian Britschgi Reason
The Democrats Finally Grew a Spine
Alex Shephard The New Republic
Happy Schumer Shutdown Day
Staff Unleash Prosperity
Trump, Vought to Meet Over Planned Cuts Amid Shutdown
Alex Gangitano The Hill
Trump Wins: Biotech Investments, Lower Drug Costs
The Washington Reporter Staff
Ex-CDC Director Talks About Why She Was Fired
Max Kozlov Nature
CDC Director Exposed for Politics
Paul D. Thacker The DisInformation Chronicle
New York’s Non-Profit Hospitals Put Patients Last
Peter Pitts RealClearHealth
The Flu Shot: Not Perfect But Well Worth Getting. Here's Why
Josh Bloom ACSH


Friday, October 3
Hakeem Jeffries: Trump and Republicans Have Done 'Nothing'
Ian Schwartz RCP
Government Shutdown: The Dispute at the Heart of It
Chris Pope City Journal
Dems Shut Down Gov't to Protect Covid Spending
Marc Thiessen WaPo
Chris Cuomo: What Hakeem Jeffries Is Saying Is Just Not True
Ian Schwartz RCP
Fact Checking a 'Fact Checker' on Medicaid for Illegals
Jerry Rogers X
23 Studies: FDA Expanded Leucovorin Label
Claudia López Lloreda The Transmitter
It’s the Policy, Stupid
Peter Pitts RealClearHealth
‘TrumpRx’ May Be Disappointing
Miranda Yaver MSNBC
PhRMA CEO: Want Lower Drug Prices? So Does Big Pharma.
Steve Ubl WaPo
Fact Sheet: Rx Agreement with Pfizer
Staff The White House
Saturday, October 4
Doing Insurers’ Bidding and Shutting Down the Government
Brian Blase Paragon
Stop the Health Insurers' Raid on the Treasury
Stephen Moore Townhall
Unholy Alliance Between Progressives and Big Insurance
Staff Unleash Prosperity
Obamacare Premium Increases Paid for by Taxpayers
Mark Howell Paragon
Health Care Subsidies Are a Political Shortcut
James C. Capretta The Dispatch
Reform Obamacare; Don’t Spend More on It
John C. Goodman Goodman Institute
Dems Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
Jacob Adams The Daily Signal
The Democrats Finally Grew a Spine
Alex Shephard The New Republic
Dems Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
Brianna Lyman Federalist
Dems Did Not Shut Down Gov't Over Health Care to Illegals
Melissa Goldin AP
Fact Checking a 'Fact Checker' on Medicaid for Illegals
Jerry Rogers X
Dems Shut Down Gov't to Obscure Obamacare's Failures
Christian Britschgi Reason
Government Shutdown: The Dispute at the Heart of It
Chris Pope City Journal
Hakeem Jeffries: Trump and Republicans Have Done 'Nothing'
Ian Schwartz RCP
Chris Cuomo: What Hakeem Jeffries Is Saying Is Just Not True
Ian Schwartz RCP
'TrumpRx': White House Announces Deal with Pfizer
Andrews & Whyte WSJ via MSN
‘TrumpRx’ May Be Disappointing
Miranda Yaver MSNBC
PhRMA CEO: Want Lower Drug Prices? So Does Big Pharma
Steve Ubl WaPo
Prior Authorization Should Put Patients First
Andrea Gelzer DC Journal
New York’s Non-Profit Hospitals Put Patients Last
Peter Pitts RealClearHealth
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