Crapifying Medicare with the New MACRA Program
New Medicare reimbursement program, MACRA, will further crapify the physician’s workplace.
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Japan Isn’t Playing Neoliberalism’s Word Games
Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
Read more...The History of ObamaCare, 2013-2016
A compendium of ObamaCare posts at Naked Capitalism (with talking points).
Read more...The Underground History of the So-Called Public Option (Plus Underpants Gnomes)
The history of single payer and the so-called “public option”; applying a hermaneutic of suspicion.
Read more...How Veterans are Victims of Big Pharma
Yves here. While this post makes an important point about the degree to which veterans are targets for opioid marketing, as well as the creation of a large and multiheaded “pain lobby” to promote the idea that pain was undertreated (which may have been true, but not to the degree suggested). However, the article also […]
Read more...The Link Between Health Spending and Life Expectancy: The US is an Outlier
Why does lavish health spending in the US produce so little in the way of results?
Read more...ObamaCare Death Spiral Accelerates as Aetna Pulls out of the Exchanges
Aetna’s withdrawal from the ObamaCare exchanges intensifies the health care policy debate, including the “public option” and single payer
Read more...JAMA Turns Over Its Pages to Neoliberal Policy Erasure on Health Care, Because Obama
JAMA publishes a political piece on ObamaCare, by Obama, in an election year, that doesn’t meet its own editorial standards.
Read more...How Executives Can Personally Profit from Bad Corporate Behavior in Health Care
Two Johnson & Johnson executives were prosecuted in a health care case for illegal marketing but their superiors got off scot free.
Read more...Uncovered California: Why Millions Have Fallen Into Health Care Gaps
How Covered California, the best Obamacare implementation in the US, still falls well short of its promise.
Read more...Gluttony and Sloth
Sloth, as in lower levels of physical activity, are a much bigger contributor to population-wide gains in weight levels than caloric intake.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? – A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context
In my humble opinion, the usual research misconduct narrative is vastly oversimplified, as is the case reported by the New York Times.
Read more...The Sanders Revolution: North Dakota as an Example of the Long Tail of Grass Roots Activism
Incredible as it may seem, North Dakota’s progressive era Nonpartisan League influences state politics to this day.
Read more...IMF Warns That Inequality, Poverty, Low Productivity Growth, Falling Workforce Participation Will Drag on US Growth
The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
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