Category Archives: Health care

Your Money and Your Life: Private Equity Blasts Ethical Boundaries of American Medicine

In a harrowing new book, Laura Katz Olson exposes how private equity is taking over health care companies – and preying on human lives.

How America Can Stop Violence Against Health Care Workers

Congess is rousing itself to make health care employers Do Something to protect staff from violence….but is the legislation adequate?

How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘Covid-Proof’ Your Home

Some easy home ventilation tips that could help relatives and colleagues.

Inflation Freakout and Possible Fed Overshoot

There’s a lot of nattering about inflation and not enough insight.

Attention Deficit Disorder, The Anticapitalist Condition

Is this hyperbole: “Attention deficit disorder is the neurological condition of late capitalism.”

Calling All CalPERS Long-Term Care Policyholders! Kaiser Health News/New York Times Want to Hear Your Stories

CalPERS long-term care victims, um, policyholders: the press is interested in your plight! Use the link in this post to a NYT contact form.

Fresh Signs of Mosquito Insecticide Resistance in South Africa

South Africa could soon join the list of countries that have relegated malaria to history – although this post highlights the worrying possibility that a spike in malaria cases might occur, as a consequence of insecticide resistance

Will Pfizer’s Paxlovid Be the Game-Changer that Saves Biden’s “Test to Treat” Program?

First we had “shots in arms.” Now we have “pills in mouths.”

Complex Eligibility Requirements, Much-Beloved of Liberal Democrats, Are Lethal When They Take the Form of Medicare Co-Pays and Deductibles

Small increases in cost cause patients to cut back on drugs with large benefits, ultimately causing their death.

Various Covid Updates

Some Covid news, not encouraging but not yet alarming.