@abettel

Senior health care editor at @axios. https://xitter.cf/t.co/v3htJtwqpI Signal: oradea.10

 Washington, D.C.
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Joined March 2009
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Uninsured rate surges after ACA, Medicaid changes axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - Uninsured rate soars

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1 big thing: Firms look to ease health price shocks axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - 1 big thing: Firms look to ease health price shocks

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New mission tests making cancer drugs in space axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - New mission tests making cancer drugs in space

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Drug launch prices stress health system: Report axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - 1 big thing: Drug launch prices stress health system

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A new health AI dilemma: Who do the bots work for? axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - 1 big thing: Medical AI's cost-benefit dilemma

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@essenviewsOct 18
Trump: If Democrats win, “You’re going to be thrown into a system where everyone gets healthcare.”
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1 big thing: Why health care stocks are rallying axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - 1 big thing: Why health care stocks are rallying

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Medicare open enrollment starts today, and millions of seniors are being forced to find new coverage as private health insurers abandon plans they no longer find profitable. Before you pick a plan, here's what those Medicare Advantage ads aren't telling you: healthcareuncovered.substack…
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The barriers to realizing AI's promise in health care axios.com/2026/10/14/ai-heal…

The barriers to realizing AI's promise in health care

Without intervention, AI is on track to make health care even more expensive and wasteful.

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@statnewsOct 13
We are going to miss you very much, Helen. statnews.com/2026/10/13/hele…

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Axios-Ipsos poll: "Medicare for All" support surges axios.com/2026/10/13/axios-i…

Axios-Ipsos poll: "Medicare for All" support surges

Two-thirds of respondents said the government should be willing to spend more tax dollars to lower health care costs.

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Just published @TheLancet Global threats to health in the 21st century an opus, 59 page comprehensive dissection of all the threats we face thelancet.com/journals/lance… @IHME_UW
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing. propublica.org/article/idaho…

Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to...

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Darius Tahir@dariustahirOct 9
A team of financiers, techies+ government officials are talking on a government-run chat room about how to get Americans to use medical AI, turn over their medical records, and for the companies to profit. From @AmandaSeitz, @maia_rosenfeld and myself: cbsnews.com/news/ai-tech-lea…

AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room

A Slack workspace has served as a war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their healthcare and medical...

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Trump admin lays path for sale of unapproved peptides washingtonpost.com/health/20…

Trump administration paving way for temporary sale of some unapproved peptides

Food and Drug Administration scientists and some medical experts have raised alarms about increasing access to certain peptides.

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More than a quarter of Americans have medical debt axios.com/2026/10/09/quarter…

More than a quarter of Americans have medical debt

Even insured patients aren't insulated from costs they can't afford.

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Chip Kahn
@chipkahnOct 8
HIPAA is 30. Most people think the “P” stands for privacy. It stands for portability. In @Health_Affairs Forefront, Chris Jennings and I look at what the law actually built and why it can still serve health care’s future. healthaffairs.org/content/fo…

HIPAA At 30: The “P” Isn’t For Privacy | Health Affairs Forefront

HIPAA, which turned 30 years old in August, merits new attention, particularly because it is and will be the primary statutory vehicle for addressing today’s and tomorrow’s debates on artificial...

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Biohub partners with Google and feds in bid to map cells axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - Biohub partners up in bid to map cells

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Drug lobby sues to stop Medicare pricing experiment axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - Drug lobby sues to stop Medicare experiment

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1 big thing: Bryan Johnson's Rx for immortality axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosfutureofhealthcare

Axios Future of Health Care - 1 big thing: Bryan Johnson's Rx for immortality

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