A year of health-insurance adjustments pushed down core CPI and core services CPI; inflation adjustments swing the other way next month.
Read more...The U.S. health care industry is one of the world’s worst polluters, causing many of the deaths it seeks to prevent.
Read more...An overview of the issues in and the magnitude of the strike at the Kaiser health system.
Read more...Dollar General has launched profit-motivated health clinics on wheels. What could go wrong?
Read more...The FIRE sector capitalizes on Germany’s industrial decline as government diverts money from social programs to military.
Read more...Sadly, famed short seller David Einhorn’s saying applies to US public health: “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse.”
Read more...Simon Schama’s book on pandemics and vaccines is highly informative, although KLG takes issue with Schama’s defense of Anthony Fauci.
Read more...The researchers found that former Medicaid enrollees looking for health plans on the private market face aggressive, misleading marketing of limited-benefit products that don’t cover important services and fail to protect consumers from high health costs.
Read more...The cheap and highly addictive cocaine-like stimulant Captagon shows signs of following in the opioid fentanyl’s footsteps.
Read more...Sadly, there is pushback against a proposed Medicare rule to assure (barely) adequate staffing in nursing homes. Please comment in favor!
Read more...Demand that state legislators investigate pharmacy benefit manager price-gouging for biologics like Humira when cheaper biosimilars exist
Read more...Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?
Read more...A carefully done study, admittedly on mice, suggests that more Covid vaccinne boosting is counterproductive in immune repsone terms.
Read more...Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...KFF Health News advocated feel-good but largely ineffective approaches to insurer denials, as opposed to effectiive reforms.
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