Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care
Hoo boy, trusting Alexa for health care. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out.
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Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing
The legislative war to end balance billing moves forward in California.
Read more...FDA Allowed Medtronic to Shield Info on Heart Device Failures
Medtronic allowed to report in secret the failures of its heart device – concealing information from patients, their doctors, and consumer advocates.
Read more...The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise
Having doctors in the family is good for your healh. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders Have Introduced Medicare For All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other
Explains the differences in the cost containment sections of the HR1384 (Jayapal) and S1129 (Sanders), and calls upon Senator Sanders to correct two defects in his bill that minimize its ability to reduce costs.
Read more...House Democrats Schedule Hearing on HR1384 (#MedicareForAll) for This Tuesday, April 30
Witnesses for the HR 1384 hearings include one (known) HR1384 advocate, only two Medicare for All advocates, and no subject matter experts who can speak on budget.
Read more...How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life
Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Read more...Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...Department of Justice Indicts Two Drug Company Executives Over Opioid Sales; More to Come?
On Tuesday, the Southern District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a series of indictments against one of the ten largest drug distributors in the US, Rochester Drug Co-Operative, and two former executives, the CEO and the chief compliance officer, and the latter has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. […]
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...We Need to Stop the Overdiagnosis Disease. Step 1: Remove Vested Interests
Time to stop treating people as targets for disease treatments.
Read more...New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
Read more...What Oklahoma’s Opioid Settlement Means for Other States, Cities and Counties Suing Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
Read more...Trump Administration And Democrats Return Health Law To Political Center Stage
Trump is now seeking to gut the ACA in its entirety. How might the battle over health care play out?
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
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