News Clips, 7/20

Selected News Clips on Health Policy and Health Economics

July 20 — Selected news clips on health policy and health economics.

Doctors ‘Cringe’ at Possibility of Documenting Which Medicaid Enrollees Too Sick To Work
https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-medical-frailty-documentation-doctors/

‘I just wanted to give up’: Disabled patients face Medicaid denials from IT errors
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/20/nx-s1-5896359/medicaid-disabled-patients-denied-deloitte-michigan

Cutting Medicaid for Children—A Bet Against the Future | Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment | JAMA | JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2851237

State audit of Medicaid records points to methods used by PBMs to obscure drug costs
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2026/07/20/iowa-medicaid-pbm-audit-circumvention-spread-pricing-ban/

Pregnant Woman’s Roadside Death Triggers Push To Reopen Mississippi Delta Hospital https://kffhealthnews.org/rural-health/rural-mississippi-delta-hospital-desert-pregnant-woman-dies-emergency-services/

Ohio residents sue Taco Bell, say they got cyclospora after eating at restaurants
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5977259-cyclospora-outbreak-taco-bell-lawsuit/

Violence Repeatedly Erupts at Dementia Care Facilities Despite Warnings, Inspections Show
https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/dementia-violence-assaults-nursing-homes-assisted-living-california-minnesota-virginia/

FDA: Taylor Farms lettuce cyclospora finding was false positive
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5977729-cdc-cyclospariosis-outbreak-update/

GenAI Won’t Lower Medical Costs By Replacing Doctors And Nurses
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2026/07/20/genai-wont-lower-medical-costs-by-replacing-doctors-and-nurses/

With nursing in high demand, more men look to the field as a stable career option
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/20/nx-s1-5886455/with-nursing-in-high-demand-more-men-look-to-the-field-as-a-stable-career-option

How AI is supercharging drug development https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/artificial-intelligence-drug-development-impact

Opinion | Capping the Price of Health Care Is a Mistake - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/health-care-prices-insurance-caps.html

Opinion: It’s time to treat pandemics as threats to national security
https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/pandemics-national-security-threats/

Telemedicine company touted by Novo Nordisk stressed profits over patient safety, ex-workers say https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/lifemd-weight-loss-drugs-novo-nordisk-telemedicine/

How public opinion is turning against AI
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/495950/ai-populism-protests-violence

Comforting speeches won’t cure Alzheimer’s
https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/comforting-speeches-wont-cure-alzheimers/

Opinion: My husband’s suicide shows there’s something very wrong with the U.S. insurance industry
https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/psychiatric-insurance-coverage-suicide-denial-personal-essay/

Titanic-sinker or GOP ‘salesman’? A Senate fiscal hawk grabs a critical gavel
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/ron-johnson-budget-committee-reconciliation-01004362

In Maine Senate Race, Democrats Go From Chaos to Coronation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/maine-democrats-senate-jackson-platner.html