Category Archives: Health care

Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy

Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.

ObamaCare Open Enrollment Whimpers to a Close, as Exchanges Continue Their Slow Death Spiral

ObamaCare enrollment numbers flat, Medicaid’s up, but nobody really knows why. With video on Covered California’s hilariously poor website.

Dean Baker Exposes How CBO Cooks Inflation Forecasts to Promote Deficit Scaremongering

Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.

Tax Breaks for Big Pharma on Top of Unreasonable Price Hikes

Big Pharma’s claim that it is hard pressed to find cash for R&D spending needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.

Sanders v. Clinton Democratic Debate: Corruption, Health Care and Theories of Change

Corruption will defeat any insider, incremental theory of change. Hence an outside movement is the only way forward.

Krugman’s Cowardly, Dishonest Attack on David Dayen Over Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Sanders’ Financial Reforms

Paul Krugman’s recent posts have been most peculiar. Several have looked uncomfortably like special pleading for political figures he likes, notably Hillary Clinton.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.