Preparing for One Big Beautiful Disaster
On July 4th, 2025, Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law (H.R. 1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act), a law that is projected to have significant negative impacts on the American healthcare system, healthcare infrastructure, and patients across the United States. While the White House and congressional Republicans are touting OBBBA as a significant success for the average American, virtually every credible analysis, including those by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), indicates that it will have devastating long-term impacts on public health.
Patient Advocacy Groups Circulate Revised Open Letter Against the Use of QALYs
A group of patient advocacy organizations has published a revised version of their 2021 open letter opposing the use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) and similar measures that employ fundamentally devaluing metrics to evaluate the impacts of procedures and treatments on the lives of people living with disabilities and older Americans.