From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: Neoliberalism Brews a Second Helping of Failure
Will TrumpCare be a crapified version of ObamaCare?
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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.
Read more...Japan Isn’t Playing Neoliberalism’s Word Games
Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
Read more...The History of ObamaCare, 2013-2016
A compendium of ObamaCare posts at Naked Capitalism (with talking points).
Read more...The Underground History of the So-Called Public Option (Plus Underpants Gnomes)
The history of single payer and the so-called “public option”; applying a hermaneutic of suspicion.
Read more...How Veterans are Victims of Big Pharma
Yves here. While this post makes an important point about the degree to which veterans are targets for opioid marketing, as well as the creation of a large and multiheaded “pain lobby” to promote the idea that pain was undertreated (which may have been true, but not to the degree suggested). However, the article also […]
Read more...The Link Between Health Spending and Life Expectancy: The US is an Outlier
Why does lavish health spending in the US produce so little in the way of results?
Read more...ObamaCare Death Spiral Accelerates as Aetna Pulls out of the Exchanges
Aetna’s withdrawal from the ObamaCare exchanges intensifies the health care policy debate, including the “public option” and single payer
Read more...JAMA Turns Over Its Pages to Neoliberal Policy Erasure on Health Care, Because Obama
JAMA publishes a political piece on ObamaCare, by Obama, in an election year, that doesn’t meet its own editorial standards.
Read more...How Executives Can Personally Profit from Bad Corporate Behavior in Health Care
Two Johnson & Johnson executives were prosecuted in a health care case for illegal marketing but their superiors got off scot free.
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