— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

July 26, 2026

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"What you're seeing here is pure censorship." -- Steven Kahn, MBChB, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, after American Diabetes Association (ADA) leadership blocked a collection of editorials discussing researchers' removal from the annual ADA meeting.

"We're not going to pay for healthcare for dead people." -- CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, explaining tighter scrutiny on Medicaid claims as the administration froze over $1 billion in state funding over alleged fraud.