Category Archives: Health care

Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage

How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.

A Peek at Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable to Afford Their Drugs

The Biden Adminstration has implemented some modest curbs on drug prices. Big Pharma is fighting a rearguard action in court.

GE, Bayer, Blamed for Child’s Cancer in a Community Awash in PCB Pollution

Is PCB-induded health damage about to become a major litigation front?

CDC’s HICPAC Prepares to Violate the Letter and Spirit of the Federal Advisory Committee Act at Its August 22 Anti-Mask Teleconference

HICPAC needs to stop operating like a closed, cozy club and comply with the law.

FDA Tries to Pretend It Didn’t Oppose Ivermectin Use for Covid

The FDA attempts to distance itself from its earlier hostility to Ivermectin as a Covid remedy, but too many people have good memories.

Rise in Air Pollution Fuels Antibiotic Resistance, Study Suggests

Yet another reason to take air quality seriously.

Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated

Angus Deaton returns to his deaths of despair theme, with updated data and a pointed critique of the role of Chicago School libertarians.

The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?

What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor

Oh frabjous day! RFK, Jr. has lobbed a very big bomb at the heart of the censorship apparatus.

Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle

Rob Urie makes a reasoned, data-backed case that the tools used in supposed democracies to enforce class standing merit the label of fascism

Science Versus Scientism in Real Life: Where Do We Go from Here?

An engaging discussion of science-adjacent scintism, including Theranos. glysophate, Golden Rice, and rewilding.

Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance

Why health insurance schemes, both private insurance and society-wide programs, are more costly than and inferor to government funding.

Be Aware: Someone Could Steal Your Medical Records and Bill You for Their Care

On medical fraud: what you can do to prevent it and respond when it happens.

Rage, Neoliberalism, and Phone Trees

How neoliberalism is contributing to the collective sour mood.