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Avoiding Sepsis Death Traps: Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Sepsis is an enormous health problem in nursing homes and hospitals, unevenly distributed by income and geography
Read more...Workers Overdose On The Job, And Employers Struggle To Respond
Another facet of the opioid crisis: on-the-job addiction and overdoses.
Read more...Senators Unveil Legislation To Protect Patients Against Surprise Medical Bills
Medical bills are so out of hand that despite the power of the health industry lobbyists, some Senators are taking on the worst abuses.
Read more...If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank on what’s the matter with America.
Read more...Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
How the misapplication of an early study on opioid addiction risk help pave the way for overly-casual prescription of these drugs.
Read more...Dengue on My Mind: Spending on ‘Diseases of Poverty’ Not Enough to Create Effective Vaccines
A drop-off in funding for vaccines for ‘diseases of poverty’ is another consequence of the financial crisis. A recent study laments bleak prospects for breakthroughs on malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and other diseases. Climate change is expanding the range where these diseases may be contracted.
Read more...A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
Another Republican effort to wreck the ACA might succeed.
Read more...Social Activism and the Economics of Mental Health
Is the recent vogue for social activity as a remedy for mental distress well founded?
Read more...Medicare Part D: Delight, or Debacle?
My first foray into real Medicare.
Read more...How to Calculate the Costs of #MedicareForAll Properly
A takedown of the Mercatus #MedicareForAll debacle from MMT’s macro-economic bookkeeping perspective.
Read more...Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues
Another attack on union funding.
Read more...When Social Policy Saves Lives: Analyzing Trends in Mortality Inequality in the US and France
Mortality data from France makes a strong case for single payer.
Read more...Once Its Greatest Foes, Doctors Are Embracing Single-Payer
A critically important constituency is increasingly backing single payer.
Read more...The NHS at 70: The Neoliberal Assault
Neoliberals giving NHS the treatment, with typical results…
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