#Politics #Medicare From #NYTimes:

"Older Americans appear to be having fewer heart attacks and strokes, the likely result of effective cholesterol and blood pressure medicines that became cheap and widely used in recent years, according to research from Professor Cutler and colleagues. And drug makers and surgeons haven’t developed as many new blockbuster treatments recently — there has been no new Prozac or angioplasty to drive up spending."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/05/upshot/medicare-budget-threat-receded.html