Category Archives: Guest Post

Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

Federal officials say that some of the money changing hands has corrupted doctors and endangered patients.

Links 6/19/2021

Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas

A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.

The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems

Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.

Delta Force: Notes on Our Newest Covid Variant of Concern

The increasingly dominant Delta variant: Vaccines and transmissibility (especially through children) during “Vaccine Summer.”

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2021

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~

The Framers Would Call the United States of Today Corrupt. And They’d Be Right

The Framers sought to bad a culture of gift giving. How’s that working out?

Links 6/18/2021

The Health Externalities of Downsizing

This column finds a significant increase in drug prescriptions and hospitalizations following mass layoffs, driven primarily by mental and cardiovascular conditions

What President Biden and His Media Chorus Revealed about Their War-Fighting Capabilities

Putin and Biden, side by side.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2021

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaving Existing Health Care Insurance System in Place

United States Supreme Court upholds Obamacare in the third challenge it has heard on the legislation.

Links 6/17/2021

Unions Demand Pelosi and Schumer Include Lower Medicare Age, Drug Pricing Reform in Infrastructure Plan

Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.

Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

Despite warning that freebies to surgeons might constitute fraud, the feds have yet to ramp up enforcement actions.