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Neoliberalism is bad for your health (opens the original)
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This book review ran first on the Washington Monthly website:America’s Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era. By John E. McDonough, Johns Hopkins University Press, 472 pp.Last March, West Suburban Medical Center, a 230-bed safety-net hospital serving one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, abruptly closed its doors. Local residents, whose average lifespan is two decades shorter than in wealthier parts of the city, must
Pharma firms delay completing FDA-ordered studies (opens the original)
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The Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing next Thursday on the nomination of Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. I’m reprinting (see below) an article from today’s KFF Health News that sheds light on the agency’s failure to demand completion of studies it ordered when the drugs are approved based on limited safety and efficacy data, usually from a single clinical trial.This problem has existed for years.
Before the fall (opens the original)
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When the Census Bureau reported today that the uninsured population remained steady at its all-time low of 8% of the adult population in 2025, I immediately thought of this visual metaphor to describe the news: <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="251.02487562189
Tax changes are long overdue (opens the original)
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Voters repeatedly tell pollsters the economy and health care are their top worries this election season. They are being pummeled by rapid increases in what they have to pay for food, fuel, hospital services, health insurance premiums, drugs and more. Inflation has eroded paychecks and left workers scrambling to keep pace. But there’s another economic issue they should be concerned about, one that few politicians from either party are addressing and the media largely ignores: the blatant unfairne
Next-gen health care reform (opens the original)
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America’s health care system faces three related crises, each predating the wrecking ball wielded by the second Donald Trump administration and its subservient GOP-controlled Congress. It costs too much. It doesn’t provide equal access. And it delivers inferior outcomes.Things have only gotten worse under the current GOP’s reign of terror and error. This week, a leading business benefits consultant reported in its annual survey that employers expect their insurance costs
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