Category Archives: Health care

Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics

On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority

Affordability of Long-Term Care Systems in Times of Rapid Population Ageing

As the private long-term care industry in the US comes under more visible stress, a 32-nation look at the success of public programs

Make America Healthy Again: An Unconventional Movement That May Have Found Its Moment

The MAHA movement capitalizes on many of the nonconventional health concepts that have been darlings of the left, such as promoting organic foods and food as medicine.

Taxpayers Spend 22% More Per Patient to Support Medicare Advantage – The Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised to Cost Less

How Medicare Advantage, with less coverage than traditional Medicare via gatekeeping and thin networks, is a bad deal for taxpayers too.

CDC’s Conflicted HICPAC Anti-Airborne Goons Grasp “Baggy Blues” with Cold, Dead Hands, Vote to Infect More Patients with Airborne Diseases

HICPAC improves its process a little, but with the same lethal outcome

Neglecting Health Care May Have Cost Democrats the Election

Health care inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic’s toll put Democrats at a structural disadvantage in the 2024 election.

RFK, Jr. Plans Attack on AMA’s Big Meal Ticket, Licensing Fees for Medical Billing Codes

RFK, Jr.’s plan, if confirmed as HHS chair, to end Medicare use of AMA licensed-billing codes somehow will increase, not lower, costs.

Social Security Tackles Overpayment ‘Injustices,’ but Problems Remain

Moving away from withholding 100% of people’s monthly Social Security benefits to recover alleged overpayments has been a major improvement.

US EPA Enables Polluting Plastics Plants by Failing to Update Wastewater Limits, Report Says

Yet another example of EPA underperformance, here on the plastics pollution front.

Scientists Fear What’s Next for Public Health if RFK Jr. Is Allowed To ‘Go Wild’

On the considerable upset about RFK, Jr.’s nomination to head HHS.

Wall Street Journal Show How Medicare Advantage Plans Restrict Medical Services to Sicker Seniors, Leading to Switching to Traditional Medicare

The Wall Street Journal shows how Medicare Advantage plans curb care to sick seniors, leading many to switch to traditional Medicare

“An Honest Discussion of Covid Vaccine Side Effects Is Overdue”

Even with more willingness to discuss Covid side effects, most medical professionals still seem reluctant to admit to the probably frequency

Dentists Are Pulling ‘Healthy’ and Treatable Teeth To Profit From Implants, Experts Warn

Amid this booming industry, some implant experts worry that many dentists are losing sight of dentistry’s fundamental goal of preserving natural teeth and have become too willing to remove teeth to make room for expensive implants.

Obesity: Sociogenic Disease and the Next Generation of Blockbuster Drugs

The only good way to deal with the obesity epidemic is to go back to the future and eat real food, close to home, wherever that may be.

Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu

Emails show how health officials struggle to track the bird flu, partly in deference to the agricultural industry. As a result, researchers don’t know how often farmworkers are being infected — and could miss alarming signals.