Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans
More on why you should not get a Medicare Advantage plan if at all possible.
Read more...More on why you should not get a Medicare Advantage plan if at all possible.
Read more...Medicine, at least in the US, is increasingly divorced from caring for patients, as opposed to treating maladies. Can that be remedied?
Read more...An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...In a variant of “follow the money,” some recommendations of how to lead with money, as in reform science research by reforming funding.
Read more...A new paper dissects how the Covid crisis demonstrated the failings in how science is practiced now. But are its suggestions for improvement bold enough?
Read more...Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage.
Read more...Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.
Read more...In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers
Read more...How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller groups in a local market.
Read more...Yet another reason to be leery of Medicare Advantage…..widespread deceptive marketing.
Read more...Is organizing a price-fixing cartel still illegal if an algorithm tells you to do it?
Read more...Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...Assisted living facilities have become one of the most lucrative branches of the long-term care industry that caters to people 65 and older. Investors, regional companies, and international real estate trusts have jumped in.
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