Campaign contributions from health care’s major players continue to flow to the GOP despite the party’s predatory behavior toward the insurance system and public health.
Merrill Goozner
Merrill Goozner, a former editor of Modern Healthcare, publishes GoozNews on Substack, where this post originally appeared.
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Is Neoliberalism to Blame for America’s Health Care Woes?
Horror stories about private equity-owned hospitals are part of a deeper trend, a new book argues.
Posted inHealth Care
Before the Fall
The number of Americans without health insurance is soaring this year. Last week’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured rate for 2025 is the last good news we’ll get for a while.
Posted inHealth Care
The Health Care Crisis and How to Fix It
Democrats have glommed onto proposals such as the impractical Medicare for All and the inadequate public option. There’s a better way.
Posted inPolitics
Whitewashing History
The White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History seeks to enforce Napoleon’s maxim: History is written by the winners.
Posted inHealth Care
The Onrushing Uninsurance Crisis
The uninsured rate is likely to soar to 11 percent this year. Skyrocketing private premiums are sure to follow.
Posted inEconomy
Income Inequality and the Trust Funds Shortfalls
Both the Social Security and Medicare trust funds face exhaustion by 2033 because more of the nation’s total income goes to the rich, and much of their growing share goes untaxed.
Posted inGovernment
Trump Escalates War on Science
The administration, having already made savage cuts to research on topics it disfavors, now wants scientists to submit to political control.
Posted inHealth Care
Profiting From Inflated Hospital Prices
This week’s CPI report shows hospital prices continue to race ahead of price increases in other health care sectors. In the past year, so have hospital profits.
Posted inHealth Care
Censorship at the FDA, CDC
Interim CDC head Jay Bhattacharya invents a new “gold standard” to stop publication of studies showing COVID-19 vaccines had major benefits with minimal risk.
