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Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...Mortality, Medical Coding and the (Purported) Drop in Hospital Readmission Rates
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, patient mortality, and a medical coding debacle
Read more...Health Insurer Greed or Desperation? An Odd Data Point From Cigna
Cigna looks way too eager to squeeze money from customers.
Read more...The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family’s Second Opioid Company
The Sackler family has managed to hide its ownership of a drug company with an even bigger share of the US opioid market than Purdue Pharma.
Read more...Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye
While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...Should Institutional Providers Be Incentivized by Profit under Medicare for All?
Provider payment strategies under S1804 and HR676 (and what Jayapal should do with a new version of HR676).
Read more...Taking Surprise Medical Bills To Court Under the Theory of “Mutual Assent”
Contract law rests on the centuries-old concept of “mutual assent,” in which both sides agree to a price before services are rendered. But patients rarely know upfront how much their medical care will cost.
Read more...Two Medicare for All Plans: HR676 and S1804
There are substantive differences between HR676 and S1804
Read more...What the US Could Learn from Thailand About Health Care Coverage
The fact that a low-income country like Thailand has universal health care coverage should put the US to shame….except our elites are incapable of that.
Read more...Toxic Philanthropy? The Spirit of Giving While Taking
Why to be leery of philanthropy, particularly when practiced by squillionaires.
Read more...Without Obamacare Penalty, Think It’ll Be Nice To Drop Your Health Insurance? Better Think Twice
The ACA hasn’t made heath insurance more affordable for quite a few people.
Read more...Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge
An update on the meth epidemic.
Read more...Hedda Martin’s GoFundMe, Spectrum Health, and Putting a Band-Aid on the Cancer of American’s Health Care System
Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
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