Catch me up: Biden's letter, psychiatric hospitals
1. Hearings watch: The Senate HELP Committee is holding a hearing on medical debt at 10am ET Thursday.
- And House Ways and Means is holding a field hearing on medical innovation in Salt Lake City at 10am MT (noon ET) Friday.
2. Biden's pitch: In his letter to congressional Democrats this morning, President Biden makes clear that his battle lines with former President Trump will focus on the Affordable Care Act, abortion, IVF and drug prices.
3. Psychiatric hospital trouble: Nonprofit hospital systems are launching joint ventures with for-profit companies to open psychiatric hospitals, and patients are being put at risk, STAT reports.
4. Chevron watch: A KFF issue brief explains what the Supreme Court ruling could mean for health care policy.
5. Ozempic study: A new study has found that people with type 2 diabetes who take weight-loss medications like Ozempic had a lower risk of obesity-related cancers than those who take insulin, Reuters reports.
