AI for women’s midlife health

NextGov/FCW ^ | 5/15/26 | Alexandra Kelley,

[spintreebob]

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation to improve menopausal and mid-life health care for women, featuring AI for better diagnostics.

The Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women’s Health Act calls for a strengthened public health apparatus for women’s midlife care, including public outreach campaigns, research programs and treatment.

It specifically calls for more government oversight efforts to gauge the safety and efficacy of AI-powered devices for new treatments and diagnostic tools designed for addressing midlife, perimenopause or menopausal symptoms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; health; outreach; oversight

[spintreebob]

1) Outreach means looking for a real or imagined problem on which to spend money and justify the money to my friends. 2) Will "research" have a MAHA approach? Will it look into the LIFESTYLE causes as well as the other causes? Eg the role of alcohol, drugs, food diet in health? The role of birth control and no children vs having children and health?

[kawhill]

“Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation to improve menopausal and mid-life health care for women, featuring AI for better diagnostics.” I always thought that was what Patty needed.

[alternatives?]

We are already discriminating against men in overall health care spending. Why make it worse?

[spintreebob]

Medicaid spending...the best example of “forced” spending is overwhelmingly a barbell.
At one end are the elderly. It is expensive to extend their life.. just one more month. This spending is both sexes.

At the other end of the barbell is LIFE STYLE CHOICES. Tobacco, Alcohol, drugs, STD are expensive to the taxpayer. This includes newborns with extremely expensive care who need that care due to the lifestyle choices of their parents.

If I had my way, kids under 18 would be told: No lifestyle choice Medicaid for you. If you smoke, drink that is your freedom. But you don’t have the right to force your bad choice on others.

Starting at age 18 and each year after the age would increase by 1 year where Medicaid is denied to those with bad lifestyle choices.