Facing Up to the World’s Health Crises….and the TPP Would Make Matters Worse
The TPP threatens to undermine public health just as the world is on the verge of major health crises.
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Hoisted from E-Mail: “New York Times Article Promotes Price-Fixing in the Drug Market”
A well-argued reader rant on an article arguing that drug makers need higher prices to preserve their profits.
Read more...Are You Ready for Some (Political) Football? The NFL, Concussion Research, the NIH, and the Revolving Door
The continuing egregiousness of the revolving door in health care
Read more...Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin: Corporate Fraud With a Body Count
Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Destroying Medicare to Save ObamaCare: Hillary Clinton’s “Public Option” Plan
Clinton tries to work the “public option” bait-and-switch plan again. If the plan ever passed, it would send Medicare into a death spiral.
Read more...The New York Times Bestirs Itself to Report on ObamaCare Problems Naked Capitalism Readers Have Known About for Years
Naturally, the Times suppresses any mention of single payer Medicare for All.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Bill Black: Free Markets Mean Zero Economic Profit – or a 99% Profit Markup
How “free market” ideology produces companies like Valeant, which Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger called a “sewer,” “corrupt,” and “criminal.”
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...Hospital Profits and Quality May Fall, But Hospital Executives’ Compensation Keeps Rising
Executive looting, hospital style.
Read more...The Zika Virus: Big Moneymaker for Big Pharma?
Some black humor on how a drug company might look at the commercial potential of a Zika treatment.
Read more...Market Fundamentalism on ObamaCare at the New York Times
A close reading of a Times story showing the ideology of market fundamentalism in action.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: Neoliberalism as Lived Experience
How do these people live with themselves.
Read more...We Stopped Pfizer’s Tax Dodge, Now Let’s End the Buybacks
Why companies, particularly ones that get large taxpayer subsidies like Pfizer, should not be allowed to manipulate their stock prices thorough buybacks.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Will Sanders Play His Ace?
Sanders lists demands for Clinton if he fails to get the nomination…and it includes demands like single payer that are so far from her current position that it is inconceivable that she will give them lip service.
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