Briefly Noted
Recently Noted – maternal mortality in America
Recently Noted – maternal mortality in America
August 18, 2017
The US has the worst maternal mortality rate by far of any developed country in the world.
Healthcare
Books
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal – book review/critique
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal – book review/critique
August 2, 2017
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal is important and disappointing. Despite all of the information about the failings of our market-based healthcare system Rosenthal abandons her analysis when it comes to treatment.
Briefly Noted
Recently Noted – about healthcare
Recently Noted – about healthcare
July 30, 2017
Recent NYTimes article broadly acknowledges what every other developed country has recognized for decades, healthcare is not a good candidate for market control.
Healthcare
The Next Healthcare Battle
The Next Healthcare Battle
July 20, 2017
Certainly if all of these countries, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia (and others not included in this study) have figured out how to deliver much better healthcare at half the cost we need to demand that our government do at least as well. Obamacare is not the solution to our healthcare problems of access and cost.
Briefly Noted
Recently Noted – about healthcare – international comparisons
Recently Noted – about healthcare – international comparisons
July 17, 2017
Mirror, Mirror 2017:International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care from Commonwealth Fund.
Capitalism
Healthcare and Markets – why don’t they work together?
Healthcare and Markets – why don’t they work together?
June 26, 2017
A consistent chattering point in American discussi —>> read more –>>
Healthcare
The Democratic Party and Healthcare – Preserving Obamacare Cannot Be The End Game
The Democratic Party and Healthcare – Preserving Obamacare Cannot Be The End Game
June 24, 2017
The Democratic Party must absorb the reality of our situation. We need to develop and express some outrage at the current healthcare providers. None of this will happen as long as Democrats are taking money from the rich and corporations. If there is a single lesson from the Bernie Sanders campaign it is that with messages and programs that reflect the needs of the vast majority of Americans, you can raise enough money to fight off the Republican Party and its wealthy and corporate sponsors. Time to start now.
Healthcare
The Republican Party – vicious at the edges
The Republican Party – vicious at the edges
June 23, 2017
None of the failings of our healthcare system outrages the vicious Republicans. They hate poor and middle class people, the hate black and brown people, the hate government, the love to make the rich richer. That is the essence of the Republican Party.
Briefly Noted
Recently Noted – about healthcare
Recently Noted – about healthcare
June 21, 2017
from the New York Times an article that covers som —>> read more –>>
Capitalism
Naive Talk about Healthcare from Adam Davidson in the New Yorker
Naive Talk about Healthcare from Adam Davidson in the New Yorker
May 25, 2017
The solution to our healthcare problems cannot be clearer. Look at Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Sweden, and others. Plenty of healthcare systems with decades of operational experience producing much better outcomes for very single person in these countries at less than half the cost!!
Capitalism
The Global Context of the US Healthcare Debate
The Global Context of the US Healthcare Debate
May 14, 2017
The solution to our healthcare fiasco is first to recognize its true nature and then to face down those who are consuming a fifth of our economic output while producing profoundly bad results.
Healthcare
Trump Loves Australia’s Universal Government Paid Healthcare, “Better than ours”
Trump Loves Australia’s Universal Government Paid Healthcare, “Better than ours”
May 6, 2017
Trump loves Australia’s universal healthcare: Spea —>> read more –>>