Category Archives: Health care

Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now

Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.

Health Insurance Tricks and Traps: Using Cheap at Home Colon Cancer Test Exposes Insureds to Big Colonoscopy Bill

Why colonoscopy testing looks an awful lot like neoliberal rent extraction, as least as practiced in the US.

Covid Vaccine Whack-a-Mole?

Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.

J & J Agrees to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioids Lawsuit; Global Settlement Soon?

New York State and J & J Agree on an opioids settlement, which should increase pressure for a global, multi-state settlement with the opioids industry.

In Praise of the Hospital for Special Surgery

As strange as it may sound, I had a good time at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

A Report from Sierra Leone: Covid-19 Has Helped People Understand the Vital Connection Between Energy and Health

Sierra Leone so far has had some Covid success despite low vaccination rates, and it illustrates the challenges poor countries face.

The Politics of ‘Follow the Science’

How the ralllying cry of “Follow the science” is looking more and more like sloganeernig as opposed to best practice.

Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

Federal officials say that some of the money changing hands has corrupted doctors and endangered patients.

The Health Externalities of Downsizing

This column finds a significant increase in drug prescriptions and hospitalizations following mass layoffs, driven primarily by mental and cardiovascular conditions

Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaving Existing Health Care Insurance System in Place

United States Supreme Court upholds Obamacare in the third challenge it has heard on the legislation.

Unions Demand Pelosi and Schumer Include Lower Medicare Age, Drug Pricing Reform in Infrastructure Plan

Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.

Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

Despite warning that freebies to surgeons might constitute fraud, the feds have yet to ramp up enforcement actions.

How the U.S. Lost National Healthcare

An excerpt from Kai Bird’s just released book about U.S. health care, The Outlier.

Can a Subscription Model Fix Primary Care in the US?

The big bet of One Medical and companies like it is that greater spending on primary care will fatten their bottom lines while reducing overall health costs for their clients.

Covid Was a Tipping Point for Telehealth. If Some Have Their Way, Virtual Visits Are Here to Stay.

Health industry leaders and many patient advocates are pushing Congress and the Biden administration to preserve the pandemic-fueled expansion of telehealth.