Health Headlines for Monday, October 10
Trump and Clinton spar over Obamacare during presidential debate
Albany Times Union
“Obamacare is a disaster,” Trump said. “You know it, we all know it.”
Anthem Says It Won’t Cover Sarepta’s Muscular Dystrophy Drug
Forbes
Despite recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, health insurer Anthem said it won’t cover the expensive biotech drug eteplirsen for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, saying the prescription is “investigational and not medically necessary.”
Can’t Find a Plan on HealthCare.gov? One May Be Picked for You.
New York Times
The federal government will choose health plans for hundreds of thousands of consumers whose insurers have left the Affordable Care Act marketplace unless those people opt out of the law’s exchanges or select plans on their own, under a new policy to make sure consumers maintain coverage in 2017.
Malatras set to leave Cuomo administration for HANYS
Politico
Jim Malatras, an architect of top state policies dating back to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s time as attorney general, is leaving the Cuomo administration, sources briefed on the departure said.
Medical school can be brutal, and it’s making many of us suicidal
Washington Post
In August, a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York jumped out of an eighth-story window to her death.
Oscar shifts New York jobs to Arizona
Crain’s New York Business
Health insurance startup Oscar is expanding out West and cutting New York jobs—at the same time it’s slashing its New York network in half next year.