The Role of Medicaid Managed Care in the Rise of Common Chronic Childhood Conditions
Has Medicaid’s new managed care model increased diagnoses of ADHD and asthma?
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“The Medical Cost Reduction Act of 2017”
A set of proposed laws targets some of the worst forms of medical price gouging.
Read more...Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs
Spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year — more than the budget of the EPA
Read more...Alex Azar: Can There Be Uglier Scenarios than the Revolving Door?
Alex Azar isn’t only corrupt; he could be the point man on the Administration effort to crapify the health care system via regulatory change
Read more...Health Care: Pain City in the Burbs
The suburbs are home to 44% of the overall population and 38% of the uninsured population. The uninsurance rate among suburbanites is 15%.
Read more...The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
How the marketing model the Sackler family developed to promote OxyContin is being applied to one of their pet causes, charter schools.
Read more...Fragmented Health System Paves Way for CVS-Aetna Merger
UserFriendly recommended this Real News Network report, in which Bill Black gives a high-level view of how structural issues contribute to America’s inflated health care costs. AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Maté. In what is being called the biggest merger in the history of the health insurance industry, CVS is reportedly making […]
Read more...Hospital-Acquired Infections: Can You Avoid Them by Being a “Smart Shopper”?
Is “shopping” for a hospital just a crap shoot?
Read more...Improving Patient Care Using Clinical Guidelines and Judgement
Questioning whether enforcement of clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine produces better patient outcomes.
Read more...What is the Matter With the Iowa ACA?
How a scheme to undermine the ACA hit Iowa particularly hard.
Read more...Impossible to Compete with Unintentional Self-Parody: Trump and Opioids
On the corporate/regulatory nexus of the opioid crisis.
Read more...Overtreatment in the United States Health Care System
Overtreatment: Horrid anecdotes, studies and surveys, and causes.
Read more...Worst Health Care Revolving Door Case So Far, Version 2.0? – From President of Lilly USA to US Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Trump is managing the difficult task of setting new lows in the revolving door category.
Read more...Can Manipulating the Prices of ObamaCare’s “Silver” Plans Prevent Trump’s CSR Cuts from Having Any Impact?
ObamaCare subsidies are indexed to the price of Silver plans. This creates some counter-intuitive results.
Read more...The “Copper” (Catastrophic) Health Insurance Plans in the Alexander-Murray Bill
Considered as a mechanism of delivering health care, Copper heath insurance plans fall short.
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