Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
How the misapplication of an early study on opioid addiction risk help pave the way for overly-casual prescription of these drugs.
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Dengue on My Mind: Spending on ‘Diseases of Poverty’ Not Enough to Create Effective Vaccines
A drop-off in funding for vaccines for ‘diseases of poverty’ is another consequence of the financial crisis. A recent study laments bleak prospects for breakthroughs on malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and other diseases. Climate change is expanding the range where these diseases may be contracted.
Read more...A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
Another Republican effort to wreck the ACA might succeed.
Read more...Social Activism and the Economics of Mental Health
Is the recent vogue for social activity as a remedy for mental distress well founded?
Read more...Medicare Part D: Delight, or Debacle?
My first foray into real Medicare.
Read more...How to Calculate the Costs of #MedicareForAll Properly
A takedown of the Mercatus #MedicareForAll debacle from MMT’s macro-economic bookkeeping perspective.
Read more...Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues
Another attack on union funding.
Read more...When Social Policy Saves Lives: Analyzing Trends in Mortality Inequality in the US and France
Mortality data from France makes a strong case for single payer.
Read more...Once Its Greatest Foes, Doctors Are Embracing Single-Payer
A critically important constituency is increasingly backing single payer.
Read more...The NHS at 70: The Neoliberal Assault
Neoliberals giving NHS the treatment, with typical results…
Read more...“Wait Times” and The Neoliberal Assault on Canadian Medicare
The neoliberal playbook and the attempts to privatize Canadian Medicare
Read more...Missed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospices Lacks Oversight
Hospices, which were intended to offer a dignified and humane alternative to costly and often painful and distressing end of life “interventions,” sadly often offer substandard care.
Read more...The Middle Precariat: The Downwardly Mobile Middle Class
The middle class has taken a big hit. Is it going to mobilize?
Read more...A Baby Was Treated With A Nap And A Bottle Of Formula. The Bill Was $18,000.
Trauma fees are expensive and vary widely from one hospital to another.
Read more...Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns
A public health warning about the dangers of guns to the elderly and their relatives.
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