Category Archives: Health care

Private Equity Flouts State Regulations by Buying Medical Practices

State regulators have ignored private equity firms buying medical practices when many states bar non-MDs from owing them.

Yes Men Target “Better Deal” #DNCTakeBack Scam

The DNC’s Better Deal scam is barely out of the box and the Yes Men are already making fun of it.

What the US “Health Care Reform” Debate Did Not Address

A sobering compendium of the factors responsible for the rot in the US health care system.

How Electronic Health Records Degrade Care and Endanger Patients

A deep dive by a practicing surgeon into how electronic health care records are bad for patients and doctors but good for administrators.

Healthcare Hypocrisy: How Politicians Hide Behind the 1986 EMTALA Law to Avoid Healthcare Reform

Is the emergency room mandate, EMTALA, responsible for lawmakers failing to devise reasonable legislation to fund health care?

Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Scheduling, and “Standstill” and “Ratchet” Clauses

How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All

Crossing National Public Radio (NPR) Off My List for Health Care Coverage

NPR helpfully consolidates a number of liberal Democrat health care myths and shibboleths at a single location.

A Quick Post Mortem on the Better Health Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

“All politics is local,” and that’s what defeated the BCRA.

All Politics is Local: Why the Odds Are Against TrumpUncare (BCRA, BCRA + “Consumer Choice,” and AHCA)

The odds of passing BCRA, BCRA plus the Cruz Amendment, or ObamaCare repeal.

Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors

A new study confirms NC’s longstanding observations of the dangers that narrow networks pose to participants in ACA plans.

Jim Chanos: U.S. Economy is Worse Than You Think

Famed short seller Jim Chanos gives a hard look at America’s fundamentals. He is not impressed by what he sees.

Why the Medicaid Cap is the Most Horrid Part of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

The BCRA’s Medicaid cap will create a race to the bottom between the states (and why liberal Democrats aren’t focusing on it).

Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages

The gravity defying pay given to top health care managers, particularly the top managers of non-profit hospital systems.

Reading the CBO Report on the Better Health Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

The two key tables in the CBO report on the Senate health care bill (the BCRA), with some notes on metholody and the current state of play

The Senate Health Care Bill (the BCRA) and Its Appeal to Voters

How the Senate health care bill (the BCRA) appeals to the rich, youth, and Swing States