Can a Subscription Model Fix Primary Care in the US?
The big bet of One Medical and companies like it is that greater spending on primary care will fatten their bottom lines while reducing overall health costs for their clients.
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Covid Was a Tipping Point for Telehealth. If Some Have Their Way, Virtual Visits Are Here to Stay.
Health industry leaders and many patient advocates are pushing Congress and the Biden administration to preserve the pandemic-fueled expansion of telehealth.
Read more...Bezzle Watch: “1099s and Tenderness” – Papa Health Has Wacky Ideas About Elder Care
Papa Health makes no sense as a business, not that that’s a barrier to a few rounds of fundraising.
Read more...Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril
A private health data service/vendor has developed a triage algo in a rapid and non-transparent manner. Why aren’t more doctors concerned?
Read more...A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition
We had to jump through way too many hoops to get a Covid vaccine at Publix. Is this normal for pharmacies?
Read more...CDC Recommends Masking for School Staff, Accepts Aerosol Transmission (Without Using the Word)
CDC inches toward complete acceptance of aerosol transmission with improved Covid prevention strategies for schools.
Read more...As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
“These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines.”
Read more...Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.
Read more...Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.
Read more...An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
Read more...Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.
Read more...Revealed: Big Pharma’s Plot to Derail US Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver
Confidential documents expose the pharmaceutical lobby’s attempts to recruit lawmakers for anti-TRIPS vaccine waiver effort.
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