Category Archives: Health care

Private Equity’s War to Preserve Surprise Billing

Sadly, private equity has beaten back legislation to curb surprise biling.

Coronavirus: Go Forth and Multiply

An ugly take on the coronavirus.

Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic

Bad bets by individuals, the state, and globalizing elites

The American Health Care System Costs Four Times More Than Canada’s Single-Payer System (and the Public Option Won’t Help)

The increase in costs was driven in large part due to private insurers’ growing role in administering publicly-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs. More than 50% of private insurers’ revenue comes from Medicare and Medicaid recipients

A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt

An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.

What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)

Surprise billing is proving awfully hard to kill.

400 Million Locked Down in China To Fight Coronavirus

Another estimate of the severity and potential broader impact of the coronavirus.

Beyond Burnout: Doctors Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures Of Health Care

Emergency room doctors have it worse than you thought….because patients lose out to corporate practices.

Obama Helped Make Cars More Efficient, but Now They Spew Black Carbon

How regulations to tame cars’ emissions created a new problem.

Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients

Experts discuss US measures for dealing with coronavirus cases.

Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity

Identifying likely economic road kill from the coronavirus outbreak.

China Coronavirus Watch: Transmission Methods, Travel, Potential Mutation, AIDS Connection Debunked

Would the United States, faced with a similar challenge, do better than China?

Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations

Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.