Biden Plan to Save Medicare Patients Money on Drugs Risks Empty Shelves, Pharmacists Say
The Biden plan to squeeze the Medicare drug pricing balloon has merely led it to bulge out in a different place.
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Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...California Becomes Latest State To Try Capping Health Care Spending
California joins the list of states trying to choke health industry profiteering via spending limits. Can it work?
Read more...Data Centers Set to Consume 9% of U.S. Electricity by 2030
Electricity demand is set to increase markedly thanks to uses like AI and cryptocurrencies.
Read more...Status of Banks’ Unrealized Losses in Q1: Worsened After Brief Rate-Cut-Mania Relief
US banks are still sitting on losses, with Fed relief nowhere in sight.
Read more...IM Doc on the Accelerating Decline in American Medicine
On the rot in US medicine….and as you might expect, it started from the head.
Read more...Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
Read more...National Grid Wants to Heat More Homes With Converted Food Waste — and Make You Pay For It
National Grid’s biogas plant is performing poorly, as shown by downtimes and methane flaring, yet it wants more consumer subsidies to expand.
Read more...US Affordable Housing Policy Works for Wall Street and Rich Developers, Not Renters
Current policy doesn’t provide affordable housing very well but does a good job of lining the pockets of real estate interests.
Read more...Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet
Governments and private entities are eroding privacy on the internet. Is it possible to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace?
Read more...New Palestine Protest/Free Speech Threat: House Oversight Committee Targets 20 Pro-Palestinian Organizations, Such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Demanding Treasury Produce Suspicious Activity Reports, Including on Employeees
A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...In the Race for Space Metals, Companies Hope to Cash In
Mining asteroids could, in theory, reduce the burden on Earth’s resources. What could go wrong?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Read more...UK Banks Will Go Bust Because of Climate Change
The UK has low-lying terrain that has nevertheless been developed and will go underwater with climate change and take a lot of banks with it.
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