A Modest Proposal: Securitizing Loans for Large Health Care Expenses
Health care loans are the equivalent of mortgages for large health care expenses. What could go wrong?
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“The Battle for VA Healthcare and Its Funding”
Despite its problems, the VA outperforms most of the US healthcare system on nearly every metric of quality.
Read more...How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business
How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
Read more...Responding to Political Attacks on Single Payer
PNHP’s talking points on single payer, with comments and a critique.
Read more...Criminal Matter for the Attorney General of NY? NYC’s $764M Medical Records System Will Lead to ‘Patient Death’: Insiders
Another IT debacle, this one with medical records, and so with potentially lethal consequences
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...ObamaCare and the Crapification of Health Care: A Case Study, and a Growing Collection of Horror Stories
A case study of health care in Belgium vs. the United States, and reader comments on the health care system as impacted by ObamaCare
Read more...Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll Announce It Just as Soon as the Republican Presidential Candidates Tell Us Theirs
Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...James Galbraith: The Friedman v. Romers Growth Debate on the Sanders Plan – A Summing Up
How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
Read more...Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy
Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.
Read more...ObamaCare Open Enrollment Whimpers to a Close, as Exchanges Continue Their Slow Death Spiral
ObamaCare enrollment numbers flat, Medicaid’s up, but nobody really knows why. With video on Covered California’s hilariously poor website.
Read more...Dean Baker Exposes How CBO Cooks Inflation Forecasts to Promote Deficit Scaremongering
Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.
Read more...Tax Breaks for Big Pharma on Top of Unreasonable Price Hikes
Big Pharma’s claim that it is hard pressed to find cash for R&D spending needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Sanders v. Clinton Democratic Debate: Corruption, Health Care and Theories of Change
Corruption will defeat any insider, incremental theory of change. Hence an outside movement is the only way forward.
Read more...Krugman’s Cowardly, Dishonest Attack on David Dayen Over Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Sanders’ Financial Reforms
Paul Krugman’s recent posts have been most peculiar. Several have looked uncomfortably like special pleading for political figures he likes, notably Hillary Clinton.
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