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?
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Credentialism and Corruption: Medical Coding, Symbol Manipulation, and Symbol Manipulators
“Strategic coding” as a consequence of the health care system.
Read more...The American Opioid Epidemic
More discussion of the possible causes and implications of the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Bill Black: Kansas Legislature Slips Koch Noose, Authorizes Medicaid Expansion
The Kansas legislature bucks long-standing Republican orthodoxy and votes for Medicaid expansion. A harbinger or a one-off?
Read more...Wanted: A Skulk of Foxes, or the Case-Deaton Health Study and Trump
Latest study shows white working class suffers health declines: can hedgehog Trump assemble a skulk of foxes to craft responsive policies?
Read more...Who Benefits From the Mayo Clinic Explicitly Putting Commercially Insured Patients Ahead of Some Government Insured Patients?
The Mayo Clinic takes a big step backwards in patient care.
Read more...The Battle for Healthcare in the US
Some of the major consequences of the proposed Republican changes to healthcare, um, health insurance.
Read more...Whose Costs? Who Benefits? – A Close Reading of a Hospital System CEO’s Prescription for Controlling Health Care Costs
A hospital system CEO makes some questionable recommendations about containing health care costs.
Read more...From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: The “Fresh Hell” Of Health Savings Accounts
French farce on Capitol Hill, and Health Savings as another neoliberal “smart shopping” solution.
Read more...Potential Phishing Equilibria Under Neoliberalism in the U.S. Medical Coding System
Medical coding systems, the ugly truths of miscoding and upcoding, and disputing your bill
Read more...Lancet Study on Life Expectancy by 2030 Confirms Poor US Performance
A new Lancet study on life expectancy for 35 countries puts up big red flags for US performance.
Read more...As US Attorney, Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Enabled Drug and Biotechnology Executives’ Impunity
Yet another Trump appointee who was soft on big business misconduct.
Read more...Single Payer on The March
Jesse Bohon on the Christian justification for single payer; single payer in California, and why #TheResistance must support single payer.
Read more...Cruz’s Plan to End State Regulation of Health Insurers Would Nationalize Worst Market Practices
Dean Baker discusses why some Republican health care fixes are anything but.
Read more...From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: On Policy
Bipartisan compromise on ObamaCare “repair”?
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