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.
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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.
Read more...ObamaCare Open Enrollment Begins: Fraud-Enabling Front End, Collapsing Co-Ops, Constitutional Challenge
ObamaCare’s “new and improved” website, how and why the co-ops are collapsing, and how the filibuster and the reconciliation process were used when ObamaCare was passed.
Read more...Ode to TINA: The New York Times Covers ObamaCare as Enrollment Opens
A close reading of how the Times covers ObamaCare, and the neo-liberal assumptions that drive that coverage.
Read more...Towards a Program of Study for Posting on the Health Care Industry
Health care is a huge industry. Where should we focus if we wish delivery at the point of care to be humane?
Read more...“The Scourge of Managerialism” – Generic Management, the Manager’s Coup D’Etat, Mission-Hostile Management Rolled Up, as Described by Some Men from Down Under
Facts and ideas that threaten the managerialist power structure of health care are not considered appropriate for polite conversation, or public discussion.
Read more...Will Adverse Selection Force ObamaCare into a Death Spiral?
Will ObamaCare get enough healthy people in the pool to be sustainable?
Read more...ObamaCare’s Neoliberal Marketplace: Failing. And Fraud-Enabling?
Recent studies of ObamaCare takeup show the dog won’t eat the dogfood. And experience shows that ObamaCare enables insurance company fraud
Read more...Fatal Fraud? More Big Dollar Settlements by For-Profit Hospices
Non-terminal patients are being routed to hospices in a form of Medicare fraud, and the results can be deadly to their health.
Read more...A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA
Yves here. As Roy Poses stresses, the media has underreported on the conflicts of interest at work in this FDA nomination. Be sure to read the very long list of Big Pharma names that have supported Dr. Richard Cardiff’s research and provided grants and speaking fees.
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