Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either
More cheery Omicron takes.
Read more...Category Archives: Health care
Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals
Private equity’s emphasis on profit is “not necessarily great for the patient.”
Read more...100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt
An in-depth study reveals the scope and severity of medical debt in the US is much worse than previously thought.
Read more...Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
How race factors into medical assessments, often not properly.
Read more...Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.
Read more...The Arm-Wrestle Over Opioids in the Operating Room
Some patients are opting out of opioids for operations. These anesthesiologists insist that’s a bad idea. But are they too dogmatic?
Read more...California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed?
The fact that California is having to consider making insulin to get around price grifing show the depth of disease in our health care system.
Read more...CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance
CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.
Read more...A Sad Day in Kentucky: Judge Philip Shepherd Recuses Himself from Kentucky Retirement Systems Case
The big Wall Street defendants in the seemingly never-ending Mayberry v. KKR saga, over charges of breaches of fiduciary duty, fee grifting, and other bad behavior, got a big break due to a remarkably lame error by the presiding judge, Philip Shepherd. His being assigned to the case in 2017 was seen as offering some […]
Read more...Ro Khanna: ‘Freedom’ Has Been Hijacked by the Right. Let’s Take It Back
Is it too late for the left to redefine and own libertarian-possessed words like freedom?
Read more...Reckoning With the Growing Demand for Long-Term Care
Long-term care needs for the elderly are growing. What to do?
Read more...New KKR Stunt in Neverending Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation: Demanding Removal of Judge Philip Shepherd
KR is at it again! And of course, not in a good way.
Read more...What to Know about Monkeypox (So Far)
Symptoms and progression, spread, clades, mortality, R, community spread, mode(s) of transmission. And summer festivals.
Read more...Your Money and Your Life: Private Equity Blasts Ethical Boundaries of American Medicine
In a harrowing new book, Laura Katz Olson exposes how private equity is taking over health care companies – and preying on human lives.
Read more...How America Can Stop Violence Against Health Care Workers
Congess is rousing itself to make health care employers Do Something to protect staff from violence….but is the legislation adequate?
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