I started drinking coffee when I was in high school. Back then, it was either instant coffee or percolator coffee. One Christmas when I was in college, my parents gifted me a coffee grinder and Melitta drip coffee pot and ceramic filter holder. That’s what I’ve used ever since. Turns out, it was a health […]

What private equity typically does when they buy into a company in trouble? Typically, they will strip a company of assets. What Matt is writing about is the application of public utility rules to control their methods of business, Rules are not open to interpretation as are laws. I have not seen this piece by […]

A lengthy piece with plenty of diagrams to assist in understanding. This brief gauges Medicaid enrollees’ perspectives on their health insurance, based on findings from KFF’s Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance, fielded February 21 through March 14, 2023. “A Look at Navigating the Health Care System: Medicaid Consumer Perspectives,” KFF – by Amaya […]

Just like the ICE paramilitary wilding has nothing to do with public safety, the RFK Jr attacks on mRNA vaccines have nothing to do with public health. “The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, already has imposed some limits on access to Covid vaccines and has rescinded recommendations for some routine childhood shots.“Several […]

I had measles as a child, before the vaccine. I survived with no discernible sequelae. My daughter got the vaccine, along with all the other childhood vaccines, also with no discernible sequelae. Now, thanks to the anti-vaxxer propaganda and the RFK Jr policy of sowing doubt about the benefits and safety of vaccines, the population […]

Heather at Crooks and Liars writing about a conversation between Robert Kennedy and Dana Bash. “Dr. Mehmet Oz’s nonsense that Robert F. Kennedy is supposedly “at the very front of” vaccine advocacy was too much for the usually passive Dana Bash to stomach. Here’s Oz trying to pretend that Kennedy isn’t a raging lunatic antivaxxer […]

Joel and I went through some articles in our email boxes(?) and thought they may make good reads for a Sunday. Too much to post on Angry Bear. Maybe Sunday reads. Comment section is open for any thoughts you may have related to a particular article (please mention which one). You can use this as […]

First saw a report on a Measles outbreak on Facebook after reviewing a fellow writer’s commentary. I do not know the Facebook author of Science and Tech Page. I did attribute the graph and subsequent words to the author Hashem Al-Ghaili. In any case, I believe it to be important to broadcast such information about […]

People will die, more will get sick, and many will forgo care because of the Trump administration’s assaults on public health over the past year. “A year spent degrading health” – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Two snapshots of a health care system in precipitous decline: First, the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll shows Americans’ number […]

Briefly, we have not gotten to the place where the impact of healthcare insurance cuts are going to occur. I suspect the impact will be devastating to many US citizens. July 2025, Republicans led by Trump passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, otherwise known as the budget reconciliation bill. The law, H.R. 1, has […]