Category Archives: Health care

Tom Neuburger: The Media’s Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case

The press hesitates to fully report the alleged Mangione murder. Class interests at work?

A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare

An example of medical industry inertia and profit priorities thwarting better treatments, here new clot-busters for heart attacks and strokes

In the Trump Administration Crosshairs: Cell Phone Radiation

In 2020, RFK Jr.’s nonprofit sued the FCC over 5G cell phone radiation safety. As HHS secretary, he’d have the power to upend the tech.

Rob Urie: Politics by Other Means, Health Insurance Industry Edition

A look at the context of the government-supported health insurance industry practices that triggered the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Thompson.

Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics

On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority

Affordability of Long-Term Care Systems in Times of Rapid Population Ageing

As the private long-term care industry in the US comes under more visible stress, a 32-nation look at the success of public programs

Make America Healthy Again: An Unconventional Movement That May Have Found Its Moment

The MAHA movement capitalizes on many of the nonconventional health concepts that have been darlings of the left, such as promoting organic foods and food as medicine.

Taxpayers Spend 22% More Per Patient to Support Medicare Advantage – The Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised to Cost Less

How Medicare Advantage, with less coverage than traditional Medicare via gatekeeping and thin networks, is a bad deal for taxpayers too.

CDC’s Conflicted HICPAC Anti-Airborne Goons Grasp “Baggy Blues” with Cold, Dead Hands, Vote to Infect More Patients with Airborne Diseases

HICPAC improves its process a little, but with the same lethal outcome

Neglecting Health Care May Have Cost Democrats the Election

Health care inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic’s toll put Democrats at a structural disadvantage in the 2024 election.

RFK, Jr. Plans Attack on AMA’s Big Meal Ticket, Licensing Fees for Medical Billing Codes

RFK, Jr.’s plan, if confirmed as HHS chair, to end Medicare use of AMA licensed-billing codes somehow will increase, not lower, costs.

Social Security Tackles Overpayment ‘Injustices,’ but Problems Remain

Moving away from withholding 100% of people’s monthly Social Security benefits to recover alleged overpayments has been a major improvement.

US EPA Enables Polluting Plastics Plants by Failing to Update Wastewater Limits, Report Says

Yet another example of EPA underperformance, here on the plastics pollution front.

Scientists Fear What’s Next for Public Health if RFK Jr. Is Allowed To ‘Go Wild’

On the considerable upset about RFK, Jr.’s nomination to head HHS.