Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada, But Insists on Sending Carcinogen-Contaminated Pills to the Public
Overpriced and even contaminated drugs prove US policies are deadly.
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Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
Another KHN scoop on how the FDA has been hiding reports of bad outcomes with medical devices, in this case, ones for heart disease.
Read more...Electronic Health Records Creating A ‘New Era’ Of Health Care Fraud
Dozens of suits have been filed by whistleblowers, doctors and hospitals alleging that electronic health records (EHR) software used in hospitals and medical offices has hidden flaws that may pose a danger to patients — and that a substantial chunk of the $38 billion in federal subsidies went to companies that deceived the government about the quality of their products.
Read more...The Terribly Difficult Things Health Care CEOs Must Do to Make the Big Bucks: Back-to-Back Meetings, Complicated Schedules, Fatiguing Driving?!
Heatlh care CEOs are a prime example of executive feather-bedding.
Read more...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?
Read more...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.
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