“Wait Times” and The Neoliberal Assault on Canadian Medicare
The neoliberal playbook and the attempts to privatize Canadian Medicare
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Missed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospices Lacks Oversight
Hospices, which were intended to offer a dignified and humane alternative to costly and often painful and distressing end of life “interventions,” sadly often offer substandard care.
Read more...The Middle Precariat: The Downwardly Mobile Middle Class
The middle class has taken a big hit. Is it going to mobilize?
Read more...A Baby Was Treated With A Nap And A Bottle Of Formula. The Bill Was $18,000.
Trauma fees are expensive and vary widely from one hospital to another.
Read more...Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns
A public health warning about the dangers of guns to the elderly and their relatives.
Read more...How Purdue Pharma Hooked America on a Deadly Drug
Purdue Pharma’s slogan for OxyContin was: “The One to Start With and the One to Stay With.” As reader Brian C added, “Stay with alright….’Till death do us part.'”
Read more...How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide
How Chinese money is distorting home prices in major cities around the world, and how local authorities are starting to intervene.
Read more...New CDC Study Shows Large Increase in Suicides Since 1999
Rising suicides provide more evidence that all is not well in America.
Read more...China Rx: How the US Depends on China for Its Drugs
Why does China need a military? It could bring the US to its knees in months by withholding shipments of drugs and drug ingredients.
Read more...How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided
Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...Neoliberalism’s Assault on the Veteran’s Administration Continues
An impending IT debacle at the Veteran’s Administration, and a bipartisan effort to privatize it.
Read more...Do Fewer Settlements by Pharmaceutical Companies Mean Even Less Accountability for Their Execs?
Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.
Read more...Beware the So-Called Mental Health “De-Stigmatization” Campaigns such as Make It OK and NAMI, for They Are Front Groups for Big Pharma
On the unsavory role of mental health advocacy groups.
Read more...California Hospital Giant Sutter Health Target of Anti-Trust Suit, Legislation for High Prices. Will It Set a National Precedent?
Will California officials succeed in curbing aggressive pricing by hospital network Sutter Health? Could these efforts set a precedent for other markets?
Read more...What’s the Matter With Kansas Medicaid?
Bad news and good news from the Kansas Medicaid system (with special attention to Maximus, the health care body shop).
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