Hospital-Acquired Infections: Can You Avoid Them by Being a “Smart Shopper”?
Is “shopping” for a hospital just a crap shoot?
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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.
Read more...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...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.
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