A coronavirus whistleblower winds up also exposing that private equity has too much say in running emergency rooms.
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency Rooms
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Pandemic, Private equity, Privatization, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:34 am | 87 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/3/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Friday, Friday. What a week!
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 186 Comments »
The New Inequalities and People-to-People Social Protection
Yves here. On the one hand, this post contains many examples of how people with resources are assisting those hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. On the other, it is also all too apparent that in most cases, these charitable acts only make a dent in the problems most face, although admittedly shows of concern […]
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 18 Comments »
Links 4/3/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 274 Comments »
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model
COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 63 Comments »
Coronavirus, Control, Irritability, and Guilt
A coronavirus confessional of sorts.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Pandemic, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 65 Comments »
Key Official Missing in Action: North Carolina Treasurer, Sole Fiduciary of Its Pension, Has Covid-19 but State Refuses to Say More
Key public officials are abusing their position if they keep the severity of their Covid-19 illness under wraps.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Investment management, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:44 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Legitimacy crisis vibe growing stronger… .
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 248 Comments »
Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Income disparity, India, Pandemic
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 11:25 am | 19 Comments »
Links 4/2/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 219 Comments »
Why Can’t Everyone in This Country Get Free COVID-19 Treatment?
The US is well into the Covid-19 crisis, yet most citizens are at risk of big bills if they seek testing and care.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:44 am | 48 Comments »
The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
A detailed look at the Green Deal: bold goals, with a shortage of money, transition plans, and social democracy.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Europe, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:28 am | 12 Comments »
The Coronavirus Depression Requires A New Approach to Budgeting
Coronavirus spending illustrates the foolishness of legislators believing their own numbers.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 tracker, new national poll, Biden on #COVID19, Biden backer: Sanders an “a*****e”, Cuomo bubble, Sanders on Wisconsin primary, Sanders and the black vote, Trump popularity, manufacturing, employment, forests, soil, hospital beds, vaping, essential workers
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 197 Comments »
Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus
Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, India, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 5 Comments »