Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Ever So Politely, Signals Intent to Cut Private Equity Grifting Way Back

SEC chair Gary Gensler puts private equity in his crosshairs. Will he fire?

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers

Seniors be warned: This Medicare open enrollment season is setting up to be more treacherous than ever.

Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap

How Medicare enrollees are kept ignorant about important options.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Eight: Uber Still Unprofitable, But Reduces Losses by Squeezing Drivers and Restaurants

The latest update: the financial media continues to parrot management falsehoods about Uber results and there is still no path to profit.

New Health Plans Offer Twists on Existing Options, With a Dose of ‘Buyer Beware’

While the image the plans present is one of consumers taking control of their health care costs, the reality is likely the opposite.

Right to Repair Round-Up: One Step Back, One Leap Forward

Right to repair advocates see a setback in Massachusetts, while the Librarian of Congress establish a right to repair under copyright law.

British Medical Journal: “Researcher Blows the Whistle on Data Integrity Issues in Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial”

A new BMJ article raises serious questions about how Pfizer ran its Covid-19 clinical trial.

War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban

NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.

Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms

Private equtiy stealing from babies…um, oldsters….um, Medicare. Who’d have thunk it?

Medicare Plans’ ‘Free’ Dental, Vision, Hearing Benefits Come at a Cost

On the Medicare Advantage bait and switch.

French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds

A new study has found Total knew about the links between climate change and fossil fuels 50 years ago.

On the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship, From an Unlikely Source – The Attorney General of Nebraska

On the slippery slope of curtailing a doctor’s ability to treat his patient.

New York City Retirees Refusing to Eat the Medicare Advantage Dogfood

Savvy New York City retirees have worked out that Medicare Advantage sucks.

The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa

Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.