Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Lessons From The Dutch On Affordable Health Care; Vaccine Research In America Is In Crisis
With cuts to Obamacare looming, the U.S. could look to the Netherlands for a model of a sustainable multi-payer system. (Joshua Cohen, 2/18)
On Dec. 30, 2020, I took the first of two flights to Boston, double-masked and anxious, to roll up my sleeve at Moderna鈥檚 manufacturing site just outside the city. A year earlier, I hadn鈥檛 even known the company existed. Now, I was an executive there, part of a team responding to a global catastrophe. (Richard Hughes IV, 2/18)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he said he wouldn鈥檛 鈥渢ake away anybody鈥檚 vaccines.鈥 (Lisa Jarvis, 2/18)
In the midst of a health crisis a few years ago, doctors repeatedly checked my thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), revealing an odd pattern: My test results were consistently much higher when tested at the local hospital than they were when tested at my outpatient doctor鈥檚 office. (Samantha Bonsack, 2/18)
