Category Archives: Health care

Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy

Unintended self parody on health care…if only this were a joke.

Healthcare Inefficiency: “Low-Quality Drugs Diffuse More Quickly in the US”

Another way in which the US health care system is exceptional: minimally effective drugs find a market faster here than abroad.

VA Hospital Forcing Patients to Use Facebook and Twitter

So why is the VA promoting Rule by Facebook?

GOP Attack on Obamacare Won’t Slow Calls for Democrats to Back Single-Payer

TRNN interview with Physicians for a National Health Program’s Carol Paris, on the movement pressuring Democrats to back Medicare-for-All.

UN Panel Strives to Improve Access to Medicines: TRNN Interview with Celso Amorim

TRNN interview with Celso Amorim on which priorities should prevail when intellectual property protection collides with public health.

Democrat Disunity: Hypocritical Media Attacks on Sanders

The Democrats so can’t stand Sanders’ refusal to change his policies that they are undermining their own “Unity Tour” with press attacks.

Health Care “Reform” by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo: Media Fails to Report Conflicts of Interest

Quelle surprise! The press regularly presents highly paid, well-connected health care insiders as independent voices on “reform”.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Medication Errors in Hospitals Don’t Disappear with New Technology.” Government: “It’s the Doctors’ Fault.”

Cybernetic supremacy vs. cybernetic sobriety in hospitals.

Health Care Corporate CEOs Fret About Physician Burnout….Because It Hurts Their Profits?

Health care execs say they are worried about doctor burnout….but what are their real motives?

Credentialism and Corruption: Medical Coding, Symbol Manipulation, and Symbol Manipulators

“Strategic coding” as a consequence of the health care system.

The Battle for Healthcare in the US

Some of the major consequences of the proposed Republican changes to healthcare, um, health insurance.