New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
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What Oklahoma’s Opioid Settlement Means for Other States, Cities and Counties Suing Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
Read more...Trump Administration And Democrats Return Health Law To Political Center Stage
Trump is now seeking to gut the ACA in its entirety. How might the battle over health care play out?
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Costly Confusion: Patients Caught by Medicare Not Covering Annual Physical Exams
Yves here. This post presents a classic example of why medical care in America sucks. It’s too much about billing and not enough about patient care. I know patients who can have a yearly visit to an MD covered under their plan as either a physical or a medium complexity visit for conditions for which […]
Read more...Electronic Health Records: Death By A Thousand Clicks
Rather than an electronic ecosystem of information, the nation’s thousands of EHRs largely remain a sprawling, disconnected patchwork. Moreover, the effort has handcuffed health providers to technology they mostly can’t stand and has enriched and empowered the $13-billion-a-year industry that sells it.
Read more...“Middle Class” Once Meant Stability and Now Means Fragility
The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
Read more...A Way-Too-Early Handicapping of the 2020 Presidential Race
2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Medicare for All (the Perplexed)
A French lesson on Medicare for All.
Read more...Cities And Counties Unlikely To Heed FDA Warning On Importing Foreign Drugs
The FDA goes to bat for the right of drugs makers to price gouge Americans.
Read more...A First Look at Pramila Jayapal’s “Medicare for All Act of 2019”, HR 1384
The state of play on the Hill, Jayapal burns the ships, Pelosi is awful, and HR1384 tries to eliminate health care for profit.
Read more...Cancer’s Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Read more...How Stupid Do They Think We Are? – Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
Shredding bad excuses for a bad health care system.
Read more...Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
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