‘We Ain’t Gonna Get It’: Why Bernie Sanders Says His ‘Medicare for All’ Dream Must Wait
“[Healthcare] is a dysfunctional system that to my mind needs to be fundamentally changed to a Medicare for All system — but we ain’t gonna get it.”
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Evidence-Based Medicine for the Modern Age of Artificial Intelligence
Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.
Read more...Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare?
KHN has released details of 90 previously secret government audits that reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors
Read more...Healthcare Systems Increasingly Turn to Gig Nurses to Remedy Their Self-Created Nurse “Shortages”
Private equity uses the pandemic to pursue the “Uberfication” of nursing.
Read more...Abortion Debate Ramps Up in States as Congress Deadlocks
States across the country are either moving to protect abortion rights or further restrict them.
Read more...Monopsony in Professional Labor Markets: Hospital System Concentration and Nurse Wage Growth
elle surprise! “Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth.”
Read more...Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
“Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.”
Read more...More Orthopedic Physicians Sell Out to Private Equity Firms, Raising Alarms About Costs and Quality
It means higher prices for patients, more unnecessary surgery, and less access to care for patients on Medicaid or those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Read more...Long COVID Stemmed from Mild Cases of COVID-19 in Most People
Bit by bit, getting a clearer picture of long Covid.
Read more...‘It’s Not Either/Or’ — Population and Consumption in the Climate Solutions Debate
Looking at the oft superficially discussed population and consumption levers in the climate change debate.
Read more...How Austerity Caused the NHS Crisis
As the NHS crisis intensifies, a look at how the once esteemed service got there.
Read more...The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Where Do We Stand and Where Should We Go Regarding Social and Biomedical Responses to Pandemic?
As Covid vaccines underperform and for some groups, present risks, an article in a prominent metical ethics journal calls for mandates to end.
Read more...An Entire Decade of Benefits Denial for Vets After Camp Lejune Toxic Chemical Exposure?
A recently-passed law is designed to help servicemembers who suffered toxic chemical exposure at Camp Lejune finally get compensation.
Read more...Why Climate Science Shouldn’t Forget to Factor in Brain Health
Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impact on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.
Read more...Reviewing Healthcare Costs as Driven by Pharma, Hospitals, and Doctors
Decomposing the rise in US healthcare costs. Of course, it’s not much due to more or better care, but higher charges.
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