Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Portion Of Obamacare
An appeals court nixed the Obamacare individual mandate and put the rest of the law in play. What might happen next?
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As Rural Americans Struggle for Health Care Access, Insurers May Be Making Things Worse
How health insurers discriminate against rural communities.
Read more...Wildfires Are Getting Worse, and So Is the Deadly Smoke They Bring With Them
udies of wildfire smoke give even more cause for pause.
Read more...What Would Happen If The ACA Went Away?
The ACA is back in play.
Read more...Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
What has New York done to lower its suicide rate?
Read more...The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
Read more...Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.
Read more...Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration
Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.
Read more...‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.
On a docu-drama that recounts the first major suit against toxic “forever chemicals” and what’s being done about them now.
Read more...Opening of Formerly Secret FDA Database Exposes Medical Device Failures, Spurring Lawsuits
The FDA kept a database of medical device malfunctions secret for decades.
Read more...Leaked US Trade Talks Show How Trump Is Dictating Johnson’s Approach to a Hard Brexit
Far from Brexit letting the UK takw back control, it has entered into a relationship where it holds none of the cards.
Read more...Federal Prosecutors Initiate Criminal Probe of Six Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have initiated an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against at least six opiods companies.
Read more...New Evidence on The Broad Reach of Pharmaceutical Payments
Our results add to a growing body of evidence linking pharmaceutical payments to changes in prescribing behaviour
Read more...Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
Read more...US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet
Another medical data horrorshow.
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