TrumpCare: ObamaCare, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Veterans Administration
A round-up of health care policy under the incoming Trump administration
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Follow the Money: Nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Traded Health Care Stocks and Owned Tobacco Stocks While in Congress
We have to follow the money, all the money that flows around our new plutocrat-in-chief to be, and his rich and well connected cronies.
Read more...I Correct Schumer Fudging What Medicare Privatization Would Mean and He Pretends He Was Being Honest All Along
Chuck Schumer’s nose is getting so long that he needs to get a hacksaw. That does not not bode well for the Democrats standing up to Trump.
Read more...Hospitalized Patients Treated by Female Doctors Show Lower Mortality
A JAMA article, based on a large, well-designed study, found that female doctors in hospitals saved more lives than men. The question is why
Read more...How What We Eat Has Changed
Quelle surprise! Americans eat too much!
Read more...US Life Expectancy Declines in 2015: Unintentional Injuries Rise
US life expectancy declines for the first time in 23 years, with rates increasing for eight of the ten leading causes of death.
Read more...Trump Agenda: Privatization of Medicare and Social Security?
Nancy Altman discusses prospects for privatisation of Medicare and Social Security raised by Trump’s HHS and other nomination announcements.
Read more...Round Up No Suspects: The Bio Telemetry Settlement Demonstrates the Continuing Impunity of Health Care Organizational (and Other) Leaders
As has become usual in enforcement of laws regarding kickbacks, bribes, fraud etc, the case was resolved by a relatively small fine
Read more...From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: Neoliberalism Brews a Second Helping of Failure
Will TrumpCare be a crapified version of ObamaCare?
Read more...The Limitations of Randomised Controlled Trials
Why the results of randomized controlled trials are often misapplied, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Read more...The Wacky MACRA Final Rules (and The Crapification of Rural Health Care)
MACRA can’t measure the quality it purports to encourage, and incentivizes fraud.
Read more...As ObamaCare Death Spiral Continues, Flailing Institutions Attempt to Cope
Hilarious edge cases for ObamaCare as its death spiral continues.
Read more...Not So Wondrous Drugs? – New Warnings about Severe Adverse Effects of New, Heavily Marketed Drugs for Hepatitis C
Dangerous diseases like hepatitis C make it a bit too easy for drugmakers to peddle wonder cures….
Read more...Cerberus Uses Private Equity Looting Strategy With Scandal-Ridden Steward Health Care Hospitals
How Cerberus is using a real estate looting strategy to salvage its purchase of Steward Health Care….at the expense of the operations, natch.
Read more...Crapifying Medicare with the New MACRA Program
New Medicare reimbursement program, MACRA, will further crapify the physician’s workplace.
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