The word is out. Healthcare is where the money is. Walgreens, Best Buy and Amazon jumped in hoping to fill in the remaining crevices that were left by the alpha dogs, United Health and CVS. Costco is the most recent retailer to dabble in healthcare. The contribution they are offering its 71 million members, through an …
Most everyone knows that we are over-tested, over- treated and been over-charged. We know that costs a lot of money. There is another major hemorrhage of health dollars that’s not apparent to most. I am talking about the massive expense that our complex duplicative and jerry-rigged system requires. We pay for an army of workers …
Private insurers have been allowed to offer Medicare Advantage (MA), a competing version of Medicare, since 1985. These insurers receive a fixed amount for each Medicare beneficiary who chooses to enroll with them based on the most current formula. Over the years, MA plans have artfully adapted to each formula change in order to extract …
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This blog will be longer than most and I’m afraid, more technical than most. But there’s a lot to talk about. I need to explain how vaccines used to be made, how messenger RNA works and who deserves the credit for the speedy development of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. As I said, the subject is complicated …
Mass Gun Violence US has the dubious distinction of leading the world in mass gun violence, defined as four or more shootings in a single place. It is so common in the U.S., we actually have accumulated a database, Public Mass Shootings: Database Amasses Details of a Half Century of U.S. Mass Shootings with Firearms, …
Arkansas was the first State to do it. As soon as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) gave them the green light in 2018 they introduced a work requirement as a requirement for Medicaid benefits. CMS felt that work requirements would “promote better… health” because they will increase employment and thereby improve health …
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An oligopoly exists when a small number of very large companies control most of the market. The healthcare market is one of them and the UnitedHealth Group(UHG) is one of the small number of very large companies. It’s good if you’re one of the inner circlet but bad for anyone outside and trying to break …
Margaret Sanger opened the first Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic in 1916. It was on 46 Amboy Street four blocks from where I spent my childhood. She chose the Brownsville section of Brooklyn because its population of recent immigrants from Eastern Europe, Russia and Italy were very poor and had large families. Her mission was to …
In a free market, competition is open. Both providers and consumers are equally knowledgeable about the worthiness of the product or service. Each is free to walk away if not satisfied. The price is set by the unfailing law of supply and demand. There’s no coercion or influence from the government. let’s see if each …
FREE MARKETEERS HAVE NO PLACE INTHE HEALTHCARE MARKET Read More »
Industry had its “robber barons.” John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, and J.P. Morgan more than 100 years ago. They grew rich through paying starvation wages, ruthless union busting and monopolistic control of the steel, petroleum, and transportation industries. It’s now the medicine industry’s turn to produce robber barons of equal avarice. Here are the top …