The only solutions being offered up for healthcare in America are political, favoring industry and healthcare. The issue being this form of healthcare is too expensive. Time to take a step back. Merrill Goozner @ GoozNews, “A health care plan for the mid-terms” Americans say health care affordability is their number one pocketbook concern. In […]
This KFF commentary is from EOM September 2025. I have added more detail to it. The detail was there. It was on various pages. I added charts side by side so the reader can see in one picture the differences for each age group. This was meant to portray the information in an easier to […]
“Jobless claims continue at very low levels (plus an update on tech enshittification)” – by New Deal democrat I’ll post on the updated housing situation later this morning. Meanwhile, before I get to jobless claims, a brief update on the tech situation. It turns out that I am not the only person having this problem. Basically […]
Vaccines have proven efficacy and public health value over billions of doses and, in many cases, decades of experience world-wide. In spite of this record, the Secretary of HHS insists on calling into question vaccine safety. Yet under his nose, Americans are experimenting with unproven and potentially dangerous peptide injections. “Here’s a new trend that […]
“The Rural Slush Fund” for healthcare that will be used to aid marginal Republicans during elections. Merrill Goozner GoozNews How the $50 billion bailout for rural health care providers will be used to aid vulnerable Republicans in the mid-term elections. Has it only been four days since the end of that brief moment when affordability, […]
Ran across this at the Brooking site. There are more issues we should be watching. These are the five I consider to be the most important. I did not include everything for each topic. There is more information to be read which will flesh out each issue. On healthcare also, expect 20 million people to […]
There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts around nearly every corner here in Rhode Island, or so it seems. And there’s a cemetery just a block away from our house. Coincidence? We report, you decide. The mortality rate here doesn’t seem markedly higher than anywhere else I’ve lived. But RFK Jr is coming for your Dunkin’, Rhode Island! […]
During President Trump’s first term, the administration falsely claimed that prescription drug prices are high for Americans because they are lower elsewhere. He enlisted the U.S. Trade Representative to help raise medicine prices abroad by lengthening prescription drug monopolies in other countries. Don’t Buy Trump’s SOTU Claims on Drug Prices, Public Citizen President Trump and congressional Republicans’ Big […]
One year later and I am still listening to someone who had worms in his head . . . or did have them or one that was dead. It i difficult to listen to him. While there was no chance of him winning the presidency, he did run for the spot. I can only imagine. […]
“Pharmaceutical Pricing: JAMA Talks with Mark Cuban on Public Health,” JAMA, JAMA Network Dr Bibbins-Domingo: You’ve basically shown that many generic medications can be sold at a fraction of current prices. In health care terms, what does this tell us about the market? Mr Cuban: It tells you that it’s not an efficient market…You mentioned [Cost Plus […]