Health Headlines for Monday, February 13
With eye on Obamacare, Price takes helm as U.S. health secretary
Reuters
Tom Price was sworn in as U.S. secretary of health on Friday, putting in place a determined opponent of Obamacare to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to dismantle his predecessor’s law and reshape the country’s healthcare system.
Why Weight Loss Surgery Works When Diets Don’t
New York Times
“Bariatric surgery is probably the most effective intervention we have in health care,” says Laurie K. Twells, a clinical epidemiologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Republicans, Aiming to Kill Health Law, Also Work to Shore It Up
New York Times
After denouncing the Affordable Care Act as an abomination for seven years, Republicans in Congress, working with the Trump administration, are urgently seeking ways to shore up health insurance marketplaces created by the law.
Medicaid expansion helps foil plans to quickly repeal Obamacare
Buffalo News
The Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves New York State with two choices, neither of them easy: Either stand by and watch as 1.9 people lose their their health insurance or ask state taxpayers to pay another $3.7 billion a year.
City Health and Hospitals system axes 70 workers without warning
New York Post
The ailing city Health and Hospitals system just axed 70 workers despite a restructuring report issued in April that promised no layoffs.
LSD to Cure Depression? Not So Fast
New York Times
Psychedelics, the fabled enlightenment drugs of the ’60s, are making a comeback — this time as medical treatment.