The pharmaceutical industry is the great white whale of American medicine. No matter how many harpoons activists, progressive politicians, journalists, and scholars hurl at its bloated body, it not only survives, it grows fatter by feasting on the patients and payers that are the krill of the U.S. health care system. The drug price controls […]
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How Hospital Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care
Hospitals were never meant to be operated like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must be regulated.
Posted inHealth Care
Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions
The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.
Posted inHealth Care
GOP Hands Big Pharma a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed for getting tough on drug companies. In fact, they’ll make out just fine.
Posted inPolitics
Voters Are Realizing Republicans Mean What They Say
The GOP benefited when voters didn’t hear the details of January 6, or think abortion rights would be abolished. Now they’ve been red-pilled.
Posted inMagazine
The AMA’s Dark Secret
Journalists aren’t allowed inside the supposedly public meetings where the American Medical Association
effectively decides (and ratchets up) health care prices.
Posted inPolitics
Don’t Laugh Off Rick Scott’s Nutty Plan for America
The Florida senator’s proposal, which includes hiking taxes on half of America, has even been repudiated by fellow Republicans. But Democrats shouldn’t dismiss the threat it poses.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
No, Negotiating for Lower Drug Prices Won’t Hurt Innovation or Seniors
The Build Back Better bill gives Medicare the power to buy drugs cheaply. No wonder Big Pharma is trying to smear it.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Joe, You Forgot About Lowering the Medicare Age
The president’s big speech featured a progressive wish list, but it was missing a proposal that makes for excellent policy and politics.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Search For a Villain in Health Care Affordability
Eliminating private insurance won’t be sufficient.
