Uncovered California: Why Millions Have Fallen Into Health Care Gaps
How Covered California, the best Obamacare implementation in the US, still falls well short of its promise.
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Gluttony and Sloth
Sloth, as in lower levels of physical activity, are a much bigger contributor to population-wide gains in weight levels than caloric intake.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? – A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context
In my humble opinion, the usual research misconduct narrative is vastly oversimplified, as is the case reported by the New York Times.
Read more...The Sanders Revolution: North Dakota as an Example of the Long Tail of Grass Roots Activism
Incredible as it may seem, North Dakota’s progressive era Nonpartisan League influences state politics to this day.
Read more...IMF Warns That Inequality, Poverty, Low Productivity Growth, Falling Workforce Participation Will Drag on US Growth
The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
Read more...Corruption of FDA Clinical Trials Reports: The Problem and a Proposed Remedy
Big Pharma lies via medical publications, and the FDA shuts its eyes to this ruse in clinical trials. Time to put it to a stop.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.”
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