Via the work of the Health Care Renewal website, we’ve warned of the push for corporatized medical care and the danger that poses to patients. Here is another push to extract profit from bodies, that of private equity’s new appetite for primary care practices.
Read more...Health care management seems to believe it delivers health care, as opposed to facilitating those who really deliver it: Doctors and nurses.
Read more...A new article in ComputerWorld (hat tip Chuck L) describes how the screw-ups resulting from lousy electronic medical records are large and frequent enough to have caught the attention of attorneys.
Read more...This interview, with Teresa Ghilarducci, who the Wall Street Journal called “the most dangerous woman in America,” discusses how and why pensions are under stress, and what can be done to fix them. While she agrees that the retirement crisis is real, she also argues that it is eminently fixable, particularly since there really is no free lunch. The alternative, of widespread poverty among the aged, also imposes costs on government and society.
Read more...Medicare seems to have the same sort of things wrong with it that ObamaCare does. Readers?
Read more...The short answer is not that many, and not that much. But that was not entirely unexpected.
Read more...Take note of what drove the doctors to strike: not just cutting pension funding as the administration gets lavish increases, but also workplace conditions, specifically restrictions that get in the way of patient care.
Read more...An Academy Health Blog post last week set both Lambert’s and my “something is wrong with this picture” alarm bells ringing. And it turns out for good reason.
Read more...Why CBO scoring was the wrong question to ask about ObamaCare
Read more...Random variations, privatizing waivers, and cutting doctor’s fees for Medicaid by 48%, so many poor people won’t be able to find a doctor
Read more...The ObamaCare marketplace is a lemon market, and a lemon market is a market failure by definition.
Read more...All of the insane complexity I am about to describe — and which you are about to experience, on Tax Day — comes from ObamaCare’s central requirement. It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.
Read more...I was going to say “lying weasel.” But that would be harsh.
Read more...Yves here. This article may seem to be a bit wide of the usual Naked Capitalism terrain, but as the world has shifted from subsistence farming to significantly agri-business controlled food production and distribution, it is not unreasonable to see health outcomes like widespread obesity as a direct result of how the food industry has evolved.
Read more...Yves here. Hospitals have become yet another example of looting by the administrative classes. Roy Poses explains the result is ever-rising executive pay even when financial results often deteriorate. The next phase of their misrule will be to implement further cost cuts (not including their pay, mind you), with the almost-certain result that standards of care will fall.
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