Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans

Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and to keep them working well. In essence: You need people, and more machines, to make sure the new tools don’t mess up.

What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?

With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy

Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

Another type of example of how health insurers screw patients.

Rob Urie: Politics by Other Means, Health Insurance Industry Edition

A look at the context of the government-supported health insurance industry practices that triggered the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Thompson.

Could Chinese Control Over Strategic Minerals Coupled with US Corruption Cripple the Sputtering US War Machine?

China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.

Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16

The COP16 biodiversity conference included Big Tech pushing black box “generative biology” AI-created DNA and related financial markets

How Trump Attorney General Pick Pam Bondi Did Favors for Donors and Gift-Givers in Florida

Another deep dive into Pam Bondi’s impressive record of corporate cronyism.

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.

Trump Nominates Corporate Lobbyist and Foreclosure Fraudsters Defender Pam Bondi as Attorney General

Pam Bondi has a terrible record as far as going after corporate misconduct is concerned, which explains Senate enthusiasm for her.

Long-Running Kentucky Retirement Systems Case Surmounts Yet Another Procedural Spanner, Moves Closer to Discovery After Seven Years

The long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case is clearing the remaining obstacles to getting to discovery.

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

The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections

More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.

How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery

Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability

Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on Par With Denmark

An important takedown of the blue hydrogen scam, a pet initiative of fossil fuel companies.