Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Category Archives: Health care
Another Disease of Despair: Rise in Hepatitis C Among Opioid Users
A rise in hepatitis C, another public health crisis in the making, shows the high cost of neglecting job creation and social safety nets.
Read more...Balloon Dog (Orange): The Art of a Health Care Deal
What a health care solution space looks like to our highly transactional President.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
Read more...Trump Adminstration Doubles Down on Efforts to Crapify the Entire Health Care System (Unless You’re Rich, of Course)
Sabotaging ObamaCare, gutting Medicaid with “tax reform”, eliminating essential benefits with “association plans”
Read more...Bismarck’s Health insurance And Its Impact on Mortality
The model for today’s health insurance systems was Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in the German Empire in 1884. That’s 1884.
Read more...Health Care Debate: Sanders vs. Graham, Cassidy, and Klobuchar
As a debate, it wasn’t even close.
Read more...The Sickness of American Healthcare
Some key facts that have been omitted from the debate over Obamacare and healthcare generally, apparently by design.
Read more...The Medicare for All Act of 2017: The Policies
BernieCare vs .ConyersCare in #MedicareForAll implementations, how to handle displaced worker, how to talk about taxes.
Read more...The Medicare for All Act of 2017: The Politics
The politics of BernieCare: The co-sponsors, the coverage, the funding mechanism.
Read more...Who Is Behind FDA-Weakening Bill Based on False Premise That It Restricts Access to Experimental Drugs for the Terminally Ill?
A look at some of the forces out to undermine the FDA.
Read more...Where Have All the Workers Gone: Opioids and US Labor Force Participation
Increase in opioids prescriptions in the US possibly has significant impact on labor force participation rates for both men and women.
Read more...Opioid Overdoses Increase When Unemployment Rises
NBER paper links increase in unemployment to trebling in opioid deaths and increased emergency room visits over the 1999-2014 period.
Read more...The Opioid Crisis: Treating Root Causes of Addiction
Trump’s declared opioid crisis a national emergency; author Dr. Gabor Mate says effective policy would address the causes of addiction.
Read more...Nurses: Paul Krugman Gives ‘Shallow Political Advice’ On Health Care Reform
While the National Nurses Union back national health care, they are cautiously calling only for Medicare for All, not a more robust system.
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