Vance on ACA, diagnosing myopia, and fallout from a retracted study

In a story today from STAT’s Anil Oza, I learned that researcher and physician Alex Keuroghlian recently wrote the first editorial on transgender health research in the entire 150-year history of the journal Science. And the backstory is almost as cool: Keuroghlian first met Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp this spring at a dinner celebrating the 2024 STATUS List.

JD Vance tries to clarify Trump’s ‘concept of a plan’ for health insurance

Former president Trump memorably said that he had a “concept of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act in the recent presidential debate with Vice President Harris. Trump’s running mate JD Vance attempted to elaborate on that in a recent NBC interview, saying, “You want to make sure that pre-existing coverage — conditions — are covered.” Then he said people should be sorted into risk pools, instead of a “one-size-fits-all approach that puts a lot of people into the same insurance pools.”

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