·Pulse issue · June 13, 2026

Britain put the sharpest number yet on caregiver burnout, with one carer a month killing the person they care for, while in the U.S. the cost of care kept landing on individuals: Medicaid's work rule drew its critics, a workforce bill chased 4.6 million unfilled jobs, and Social Security's trustees set a funding deadline.

Caregiver burnout reached its starkest documented endpoint in the UK as the U.S. care system kept shifting cost and proof onto families, workers, and state governments.

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