Computer and business personnel – through arrogance, selfishness, narrow-mindedness and other issues – have made a mess assuming that business software practices apply to clinical medicine and healthcare IT.
Read more...Veterans love their socialized health care. Privatizers want to take it away. Why can’t everybody have it?
Read more...A billion-dollar Medicaid contract is being awarded in Iowa through a corrupt process.
Read more...True health care reform would cut the ties between government and corporate leaders that have lead to government of, for, and by corporate executives rather than the people.
Read more...ObamaCare’s “Cadillac Tax” begins by crapifying expensive health insurance plans, but is structured to hit many more.
Read more...A new study shows wide variation in narrow networks between states, and ObamaCare makes it hard to find out if your network is narrow or not.
Read more...A top journal excoriated two doctors who engaged in disrespectful behavior, but is vastly less vigilant or heated when faced with health care corruption, as in the sort of conduct that can and often does kill people.
Read more...How the anodyne term “misbranding” covers conduct which can, and too often does, lead to higher patient death rates.
Read more...A successful initiative in the UK to obtain more registration and publication of clinical trial data has had its US launch utterly ignored , not simply the mainstream media but also the logical suspects in the medical trade press and scholarly journals..
Read more...Causes and consequences of consolidation in the health care industry
Read more...Another example of the corruption of science: the press falls all over itself hyping Praluent, a new cholesterol-lowering drug with remarkably inconclusive clinical trial data behind it. As Roy Poses points out, “The clinical benefit of the drug was not evident in this trial.”
Read more...Why having generic managers run health systems is a bad idea.
Read more...For every dollar these billionaires give, they take 44 from the rest of us.
Read more...Obesity is fast becoming a prominent global health issue. This column presents new evidence tentatively suggesting that variables related to the costs of eating – particularly whether there is a big discount warehouse nearby – are leading drivers of the rise in obesity occurring since the early 1980s. These findings should help policymakers work with businesses to find the best solution to tackle obesity.
Read more...The new fad in private equity is to hoover up primary care practices, particularly ones that focus on Medicare, despite the lack of an economic model for increasing profits.
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