Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare
“To me, that’s how insurance works: One insurance ends, the other begins.” LOL no.
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As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending
A state court, citing “eye-popping” executive compensation, strikes down a hospital’s property tax break and strikes fear into the nonprofit hospital industry across the US.
Read more...Industrialism Is Bad for Our Health: The Series Continues
New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.
Read more...The Candidacy and Claims of RFK Jr.
Economist Rajiv Sethi has a look at RFK, Jr.’s election prospects and thinks mainstream experts are underestimating him.
Read more...The Invisible Effect Medical Notes Have on Care
Doctors sometimes describe their patients negatively. How does that affect their care down the line?
Read more...“Will the Doctor See You?” More on the Crapification of US Medical Care
Medical care is being systematicaly degraded in the US. And we have AI coming to cut more humans out.
Read more...‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts
Why black patients burdened by medical debt are reluctant to solicit for funds.
Read more...Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them
Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.
Read more...ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
Read more...Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves
Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.
Read more...Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Read more...Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
Read more...Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent
Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.
Read more...Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ
Using Norwegian registry data, this column documents that the increased supply of fast food restaurants could be responsible for as much as 35% of the increase in BMI and 27% of the decline in cognitive ability observed across cohorts born during the 1980s.
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