Under TPP, patent trolls will do for medical care, world-wide, what they’ve done for the software industry: Increase costs and cream off profits.
Read more...The Insurance-Salesman-In-Chief peddles his product to young people under false pretences. So the political class goes meta.
Read more...How debates over the TPP overseas show how extortionate the US pharmaceuticals regime really is.
Read more...All that money… All that talent… And we can’t answer simple, basic questions about enrollment.
Read more...The Obama administration’s decision came as a surprise because the Affordable Care Act is clear: Federal subsidies are available only to people who enroll in a “qualified health plan” through an exchange.
Read more...OK, let’s talk about “evidence-based” just for one second.
Read more...It’s fun to see someone who got themselves in a hole keep digging deeper.
Read more...How come the poor 55+ people ObamaCare forces into Medicaid can’t leave the house and the estate to the kids, like the middle class and the rich can? ObamaCare apologists say “Trust us! Don’t worry about a thing!” but wouldn’t they have more credibility if they were agitating for the clawbacks to be dropped, instead of minimizing the problem?
Read more...Robert Pear of the New York Times has an important story today on the actual, as opposed to heavily-spun, state of play with Obamacare take-up.
Read more...kayfabe: Term in pro wrestling. Kayfabe was the unsaid rule that the wrestlers should stay in character during the show and in public appearances in order to maintain a feeling of reality (albeit suspended) among the fans.
Read more...One feature of Obamacare that Lambert has mentioned in passing in his posts is that individuals over 55 who are enrolled in Medicaid are subject to having expenses like being in a long-term care facility, home services, and related drugs and prescriptions clawed back from their estates. A must read post at Paul Craig Roberts details how pernicious and sneaky these provisions are.
Read more...“What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” —Barack Obama
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
ObamaCare defenders consistently point to the abolition of lifetime or annual caps on dollar costs as one of the main benefits of ObamaCare. (Never mind that the administration delayed complete implementation of limits on out-of-pocket costs until 2015.) However, via Michael Olenick, from ObamaCare Facts (“dispelling the myths”) we read this:
Read more...If it walks like a duck, um, a pre-emptive bribe….
Read more...While this site has been critical of the (Un)Affordable Care Act as a further subsidy to an already bloated medical-industrial complex, we do need to give the devil his due. One of the sections of the law that appears to have been genuinely beneficial is Medicaid expansion. However, as most readers well know, the results are inequitable, with poor people in Republican states that refused to take up this provision being left out in the cold.
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