Health Care Price Transparency: Fool’s Gold, or Real Money in Your Pocket?
A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
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Miracle Life Support Machine ECMO Makes Heroic Rescues — And Leaves Patients In Limbo
A life support device, ECMO, can create difficult ethical choices for doctors and families.
Read more...The Question NBC’s Debate Moderators Should Ask Elizabeth Warren on #MedicareForAll
Despite all appearances to the contrary, Elizabeth Warren may be prepared to give #MedicareForAll more than lip service.
Read more...Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Two Hours Spent Weekly in Nature Improves Health
Study shows higher self-reported levels of good health and subjective well-being for those who spend two hours weekly in touch with nature.
Read more...Why Some CEOs Figure ‘Medicare For All’ Is Good For Business
A small but growing group of business executives support “Medicare for All. They argue not that health care is a human right, but that covering everyone with a government plan and decoupling health care coverage from the workplace would benefit entrepreneurship.
Read more...Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care
Hoo boy, trusting Alexa for health care. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out.
Read more...Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing
The legislative war to end balance billing moves forward in California.
Read more...FDA Allowed Medtronic to Shield Info on Heart Device Failures
Medtronic allowed to report in secret the failures of its heart device – concealing information from patients, their doctors, and consumer advocates.
Read more...The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise
Having doctors in the family is good for your healh. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders Have Introduced Medicare For All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other
Explains the differences in the cost containment sections of the HR1384 (Jayapal) and S1129 (Sanders), and calls upon Senator Sanders to correct two defects in his bill that minimize its ability to reduce costs.
Read more...House Democrats Schedule Hearing on HR1384 (#MedicareForAll) for This Tuesday, April 30
Witnesses for the HR 1384 hearings include one (known) HR1384 advocate, only two Medicare for All advocates, and no subject matter experts who can speak on budget.
Read more...How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life
Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Read more...Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...Department of Justice Indicts Two Drug Company Executives Over Opioid Sales; More to Come?
On Tuesday, the Southern District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a series of indictments against one of the ten largest drug distributors in the US, Rochester Drug Co-Operative, and two former executives, the CEO and the chief compliance officer, and the latter has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. […]
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
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