Obama surrenders healthcare refor to Wellpoint executive
David Sirota reports that Obama has appointed an insurance company executive to run healthcare reform. Appointing industry executives to run the government agencies that regulate them? That used to be...
View ArticlePoll: Far more people support comprehensive healthcare reform than oppose it
As Democrats cower in fear of the Tea Party attacks on healthcare reform, a new AP poll finds that most discontent with the bill passed last year is because it didn’t go far enough: A new AP poll finds...
View ArticleMedical care in Latin america sought for Guantanamo prisoners
A story I missed from last month demonstrating the lengths to which the government went to keep Guantanamo prisoners out of the US: WikiLeaks cable casts doubt on Guantanamo medical care By Carol...
View ArticleGuantanamo docs fail to document torture; independent scrutiny needed
As one of very few health professionals who has viewed Guantanamo detainee health files as a consultant to defense and habeas attorneys, I was not at all surprised by the findings of a new paper in...
View ArticleAs physicians become workers they start thinking like workers
e The New York Times has an interesting article on how physicians’ attitudes, interests, and politics are changing as the profession moves towards becoming more female and more likely to be (high paid)...
View ArticleMedicare vs. private insurance costs
Paul Krugman calls attention to this figure showing Medicare costs vs. private insurance: Source. Seeing this figure, wouldn’t everyone think that replacing Medicare with private insurance was just the...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins emulates Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was one of those formative events that triggered the modern era of research protections. But these protections aren’t working when it comes to poor minority families. In...
View ArticleLaurie Penny: A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare
Laurie Penny came to the US to cover Occupy Wall Street. Instead she got spider bights and a first-class lesson in what it means to be among the 99% in America, worrying how you’re going to pay for...
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