…KHN in an email before leaving his AARP position last month 2022. For years, AARP has drawn intermittent scrutiny for its longtime partnership with UnitedHealthcare. The large-scale healthcare Insurance company…

…could be considered of no clinical consequence. Doctors who want to use colchicine to prevent heart disease will be able to legally write off label prescriptions for the lower cost…

…care organization (ACO), a prominent iteration of managed care, illustrates the problem. The ACO label was invented at a 2006 meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The concept was tested…

…vaginal creams. The controversy There may be some validity to a limited change in the label of female hormone replacement products. The original study showing the potential for harm from…

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

…helpful to enumerate the major economic functions any health system must perform: Producing health-care goods and services. Financing health care, which involves extracting money from households (which ultimately pay for…

…a solution for that, which we label the “MA Money Machine6,” the next major component of the distorted MA Marketplace. How The “MA Money Machine” Works Given the dollar magnitude,…

…general ideological label as progressive rather than moderate. She is not, overall, a progressive. She is, overall, a moderate. He’s complaining about the false labeling, the false advertising. He thinks…

…left the New York Times. Paul Krugman on healthcare and the DOGE or healthcare and politics. The evidence of the ACA as Krugman pints out is it has been wildly…

…of government affairs for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance. The group represents the top three wholesalers and more than 30 other drug distribution companies, as well as roughly 130 manufacturers and more than…