Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths.
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If Medicare for All Is Politically Impossible, “All Payer” Could Fix the System
How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
Read more...Pelosi Advisor Proposes Non-Binding Arbitration as Road to Lowering Drug Prices
Team Dem contemplates non-binding arbitration as a fix for high drug prices. Help me.
Read more...Trump and His Golfing Buddies Continue Neoliberalism’s Assault on the Veteran’s Administration
Trump and his golfing buddies from Mar-a-Lago flawlessly execute the neoliberal playbook for privatization
Read more...Frail Seniors Find Ways To Live Independently
A short-term program to help poor seniors cope with their physical limitations appears to be very effective.
Read more...Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...Medicare For All — The Democratic Party Audition for 2020
The debate over Medicare for All is forcing Team Dem to show its true colors.
Read more...3 Ways Trump Could Disrupt Health Care for the Better
Even fairly modest changes in health care come off as disruptive relative to what many experts are willing to endorse.
Read more...The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding
GoFundMe campaigns as proof of America’s health care crisis.
Read more...Micheal Olenick: Helicidine – French Miracle Snails
Snails to the rescue!
Read more...Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...Mortality, Medical Coding and the (Purported) Drop in Hospital Readmission Rates
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, patient mortality, and a medical coding debacle
Read more...Health Insurer Greed or Desperation? An Odd Data Point From Cigna
Cigna looks way too eager to squeeze money from customers.
Read more...The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family’s Second Opioid Company
The Sackler family has managed to hide its ownership of a drug company with an even bigger share of the US opioid market than Purdue Pharma.
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