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We must change the underlying valuation to reward cognitive health “care” services rather than high-tech “cure” services, doctor writes. (Daniel Plotkin, 11/10)

Let’s start with what this isn’t. Ohio’s move to cut Planned Parenthood from participation in the Medicaid program isn’t about abortion — that’s already off the table for nearly all public funding. It’s about whether more than 27,000 low-income Ohioans will still have a place to turn for birth control, cancer screenings or treatment they couldn’t afford anywhere else. (Leila Atassi, 11/10)

In a landmark deal announced Thursday, President Donald Trump negotiated dramatically lower costs for weight-loss drugs produced by pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, which could benefit Medicare and Medicaid patients, as well as Americans paying out of pocket. But here’s the skinny: What the president negotiated should not be reserved for big companies that play his game. (11/9)

The structure of medical education hasn’t fundamentally changed for 115 years. In 1910, medical education reformer Abraham Flexner helped turn a chaotic landscape of short-term proprietary schools, famous for producing “snake oil salesmen,” into today’s standardized, eight-year pipeline: four years of college followed by four years of medical school. At that time, this model made sense. Now it doesn’t. (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Emily K. Kim and Vitor B. de Souza, 11/10)

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high-tech interventions but to eating lots of plain yogurt. (F.D. Flam, 11/8)