Some Experts, Like Krugman, Supported Single Payer Until Bernie Sanders Put It in His Platform
Funny how many Democrats supported single payer until someone outside the party mainstream started backing it full bore.
Read more...Category Archives: Health care
Not Going to Take it Anymore – Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize
Unionizing doctors are at odds with management because management cares only about profit while they prioritize the quality of care.
Read more...ObamaCare’s Neoliberal Intellectual Foundations Continue to Crumble
A new study shows that health care consumers do not comparison shop, undermining a key assumption behind the ObamaCare marketplace
Read more...The Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics
How stealthy groups with ties to Big Pharma are lobbying to stymie proposals to stop the overprescription of opoids.
Read more...How Managerialsm/ Generic Management Damaged the American Red Cross
“Managerialism” is a form of looting: coast on an established brand name and goodwill while degrading the actual service in order to pay the top executives more.
Read more...Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here’s Their Secret
Contrary to conventional wisdom, poor, fresh to the US Latino immigrants are healthier than Latinos born here. Why?
Read more...US Life Expectancy Flat for Third Year
The fact that life expectancy in the US is no longer rising, in a time of economic growth, is yet another sign of underlying societal decay.
Read more...Medical Educators Launch Trials of Increased Sleep Deprivation of Physician Trainees Apparently in Violation of the Nuremberg Code
In a likely violation of the Nuremberg Code, a study increased the sleep deprivation of medical residents above already-high current levels.
Read more...Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model
Pfizer whines about needing higher drug prices, when rather than investing, it has spent over 100% of its profits on stock buybacks and dividends.
Read more...America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!
On the fallen status of lower-class whites, and the poor prospects for many of their betters.
Read more...The Bigger Significance of CalPERS’ Private Equity Carry Fee Release: Another Nail in the Carried Interest Tax Loophole Coffin
Why the CalPERS carry fee disclosure could affect the debate over ending the carried interest loophole.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: How the TPP Will Create a Medical Privacy Hellscape
Yet another reason to oppose this truly awful, anti-people deal.
Read more...Clinton, Finally Forced to Confront a Single Payer Advocate in Debate, Can’t Win on Policy, Falls Back on Demagoguery and Distortion
Clinton can’t beat single payer on policy, resorts to demagoguery. Film at 11 (with notes on the rhetoric used).
Read more...“Dreaming On”: The Illusions of the Leaders of Large Health Organizations, as Illustrated by Medtronic’s Founder
The differences between what mission statements say, and what large organizations do.
Read more...“Stunning” Rise in Death Rate, Pain Levels for Middle-Aged, Less Educated Whites
An HIV-level silent epidemic has hit less-educated, middle aged whites, with death rates rising, contrary to patterns in the rest of the world and in other US populations.
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