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Thank you to KFF for this helpful brief with important insights about recently released Medicaid spending data - what it does and doesn't tell you!

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Carolina Journal's Donna King asks: Should NC reform its primary system? The case to return to the 40% threshold of years ago. https://lnkd.in/eXPTiYCa

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Thank you John O'Dwyer and O'Dwyer's Public Relations News for letting me riff on the wild west of AI and what it means for healthcare communicators. At Real Chemistry we're leading - using our new HealthGEO tool to understand what AI is sourcing PLUS the actions companies can take to own their story. Spoiler alert: earned media is highly sourced and plays an even more important role in getting accurate and trustworthy health information to the masses. Check out my POV here and let me know what you think:

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Fantastic to see 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 go live - an exciting collaboration between GCI Health, WPP, Burson and Fierce Pharma that unpacks the biggest U.S. policy and communications issues in healthcare and life sciences. First up, a brilliant – and much-needed - conversation with Peter Pitts, former FDA Associate Commissioner, on navigating the #FDA during a period of *significant* transition, reform and uncertainty. 

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Appropriations 101 | Installment Four — The Secret Sauce Appropriations do two things: Set the dollars and set the direction. The lever for direction is the report language in committee reports that steers how agencies use those dollars. Those directives in committee reports quickly move policy from paper to practice by shaping agency decisions – often for years. How the rubber meets the road: ·      Defense: Directs DoD to prioritize specific medical research areas, readiness programs, or new technology-to-clinic translation. ·      NIH (Labor–HHS): It can expand a cohort, launch a pilot, or cue cross-institute collaboration on a defined topic. ·      FDA (Ag–FDA bill): Report language can accelerate standards development, data pilots, or regulatory science initiatives. ·      USDA (Ag–FDA bill): It can launch new agriculture programs — from crop resilience to food-as-medicine pilots — with ripple effects across health and economic policy. Why it matters: One well-aimed sentence can trigger RFIs/RFAs/BAAs, reshape program guidance, and tee up future authorizing bills. Start small, show results, and that narrow pilot can scale into a multi-year program. How to play it: ·      Aim narrow + measurable (pilot, data call, or evaluation with clear deliverables). ·      Use the verb ladder (encourages → urges → directs/shall) to match ambition and politics. ·      Mirror the Chairs’ stated priorities so your line rides an existing wave. ·      Bring a chorus, not a solo (coalition letters and aligned briefings land). ·      Follow through with program leads and cite the language in meetings and applications. That’s how policy on paper becomes power in practice. #Appropriations #Policy #Congress #FederalFunding #Budget

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In a new http://SHVS.org/ article, IPS Senior Policy Adviser and former NC DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley outlines the necessary strategies state policymakers should adopt now in designing plans to transform rural health for people in their state. #IPSNow #EliminatingHealthInequities https://lnkd.in/ey7gpzRC

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The folks at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine's Center for U.S. Healthcare Policy Research keep putting out useful resources. The latest is on IP, and it's another clip-n-save resource that includes both a sense of the existing state of play -- most meds get about 14 years of patent life, and only a couple of years before there is competition from other branded meds -- as well as some good historical context on what happens to innovation (bad things!) when patent rights get eroded.

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