Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that drug prices are "FALLING AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 500%, 600%, 700%, and more." He must have failed sixth grade math, where I learned nothing can go down by more 100% (unless, of course, someone pays you to take their product off their hands).

Why is the Trump regime delaying biosimilars? I thought he wanted to lower drug prices. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

ICE may be reducing presence in Chicago this week. Bovino's masked goons leave behind: two people shot, one dead; protesters & first responders tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets; citizens handcuffed & detained, including kids; and more. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/b...

Capitulation puts millions at risk of losing their insurance. And don't expect Republicans to offer relief in those December negotiations. They have other plans. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

With the GOP deliberately raising the uninsured rate, there's now a transformed landscape for health care reform. It's time for Democrats to abandon the gradualist approach. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

"The Republican wrecking ball has shattered one of the core beliefs of centrist health care reformers, which states: Incremental reforms will eventually lead the U.S. to the promised land of health insurance for all." washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/06/r...

I use Spotify a lot. My wife uses Amazon Prime a lot. I think we have to start talking seriously about targeted boycotts to force corporate tech America to stop supporting the Trump regime. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

Is Medicare Advantage about to fall to less than half of all seniors in the Medicare program? There's good reason to think so as this open enrollment season gets underway. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD on the White House purge of expertise from health-related advisory committees and the CDC. Reprinted with permission from the always excellent Milbank Quarterly. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Insightful piece by @CitizenCohn on how infectious disease docs and researchers are fighting back against RFK Jr.’s destruction of the CDC. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Health insurance for the 154 million Americans who rely on their employers for coverage isn't working so well, either. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Good perspective on rising enrollee costs in employer sponsored insurance as reported by KFF today from @gooznews.bsky.social

I'm attending Indivisible Illinois's event, “Indivisible Illinois At No Kings Chicago Rally! Stand With Us” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblei...

ICYMI: Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

As Sly Stone sang: "It's a family affair." newrepublic.com/article/2019...

"Ms. Brockman was taken to the ground, battered, handcuffed and her pants pulled down exposing her bare buttocks. No one should be treated like that in this city, in this country, or anywhere else in the world,” Brad Thomson, her lawyer said. She plans to sue. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A scene from yesterday's Chicago marathon and a reposting of a compelling op-ed from today's Chicago Sun-Times. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

This week's GoozNews podcast interviews Shawn Gremminger, president National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasers Coalition. Given what's going on in Washington, he is concerned about the long-term viability of employer-based insurance. Give a listen. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Grand jury refuses to indict Chicago protesters carrying legally registered guns who were arrested by ICE as "armed rioters." "Less evidence than a ham sandwich," judge says. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/f...

To keep the government open, Democrats insist the GOP renew the enhanced premium subsidies for ACA health insurance plans. It's a worthy fight. But they need to start talking about the cost crisis facing the 164 million Americans with private health insurance, too. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

To keep the government open, Democrats insist the GOP renew the enhanced premium subsidies for ACA health insurance plans. It's a worthy fight. But they need to start talking about the cost crisis facing the 164 million Americans with private health insurance, too. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

I returned from two weeks away to a city on the verge of occupation. Read my firsthand impressions of what's going on in Chicago here: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Trump’s FDA puts the precautionary principle in play. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Check out my latest podcast, an interview with the CEO of a small health insurer who has some interesting ideas about how to reform an industry that is failing to deliver on its promise to deliver better health at lower cost. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

What sycophancy in the service of trying to get RFK Jr. to back off. www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/p... Scientists working on NIH and BARDA grants developed the Covid vaccine, not Donald Trump. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla should be ashamed.

Just out: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

My latest: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

The shocking cost of Long Covid, based on a new study just out in JAMA ... open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Catching up on the news, I thought it worthwhile to highlight the latest malfeasance at the FDA: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

What happens if a good idea is turned into its opposite? gooznews.substack.com/p/trumps-lat...

What's behind the firing of Dr. Vinay Prasad at the FDA? See: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

This becomes available at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Covid cases are on the rise again, increasing the number of Long Covid cases that are inundating the health care system. For an in-depth discussion of this mounting health and economic challenge, listen to the latest GoozNews podcast: gooznews.substack.com/p/podcast-th...

To: Columbia University president Claire Shipman From: A J-school alumni Re: Signing a $200 million "settlement" with the Trump regime I will no longer be making my small contributions to the journalism school. Please use the part of university's $15 billion endowment that you didn't give to Trump.

Every day brings another Trump administration assault on public health, the health care workforce, and workers generally. At some point, the working class will notice. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

How FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is undermining science-based decision-making at the agency. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...

I'm running out of metaphors. Why the One Big Ugly Bill is Robin Hood in reverse. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Employers understand how #Medicaid subsidizes nearly 20 million of their workers. Why doesn't the GOP Congress? open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Every man for himself doesn't work in war, and war against the poor is what we have with the Trump/GOP's One Big Ugly Bill. That's why I got angry when I saw hospitals main lobbying effort this week focused on saving themselves, not their patients and communities. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

This week's GoozNews podcast: Alex Lawson of Social Security Works explains how a little humor can help defeat the Trump/GOP's One Big Ugly Bill. Give a listen here: gooznews.substack.com/p/podcast-do...

The FDA announces a new program to speed up drug approvals without public input. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

A few observations (and pictures) from the No Kings March in Chicago (where I live); and the latest health care news. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

CBO is out with its official analysis of the One Big Ugly Bill. Guess what? The poor get slammed while the rich get richer. Who'd a thunk it? See the details in my latest post: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

The One Big Beautiful tax-giveaway bill now before the Senate makes major cuts to Medicare as well as Medicaid. Read more in my latest post: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

We cannot defend Medicaid, Obamacare, food stamps and more from the vicious cuts in Trump's "one big beautiful bill" unless we win the fight to preserve our democracy. Read my latest post on GoozNews: open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

🚨 CONNECTICUT: Preliminary 2026 #ACA rate changes: +22.9% avg; 5.2% due specifically to GOP letting IRA subsidies expire: acasignups.net/25/06/07/202...

Listen to the voice of a young mother whose 6-year-old child is battling brain cancer. Voices like hers were largely missing from the FDA "listening session" on the problems facing biotech firms in bringing new therapies to market. gooznews.substack.com/p/podcast-on...

Check out my latest post: gooznews.substack.com/p/the-future...