Paul Krugman recently posted a piece in the New York Times, The Deadly Delusions of Mad king Donald. It likened our current state of
Category: Health care
800,000 MD’s call Trump’s Easter re-opening plan a prescription for disaster
800,000 doctors are telling Donald Trump that his “plan” to reopen businesses by Easter is a bad idea. In a letter delivered to Trump
The ABC’s of ICD’s [the device implanted in Blues player Jay Bouwmeester]
Picture a nice size orange. Imagine it cut it in half. Stick two thin wires into the orange. Then close your eyes and think
Embrace Universality, Reject Means Testing
Bernie Sanders also has a student loan forgiveness proposal; he wants to forgive all of it. That’s it. There are no formulas, no missives full of technocratic language, and no barrier to entry other than having accumulated student loan debt.
Fact: American health care depends on foreign-born-and-trained professionals
The misinformation about legal immigration peddled by the Trump administration is going to get up close and personal for many of us rather quickly.
Big winners in 2018 midterms? Every American with a pre-existing condition
Regardless of party affiliation or which party’s candidates voters cast their ballots for on November 6, the big winners in the midterm elections are
3 medical marijuana proposals on MO ballot: Compare and contrast
If you’re voting in Missouri on Nov. 6, 2018—and you are, aren’t you?—you’re going to find: not one, not two, but three proposals pertaining
What I learned about killer bacteria from my doctor’s socks
The first thing I noticed when the doctor sat down in the examining room were the socks. Tucked into a pair of worn, brown-leather
Venezuela’s sick economy is killing its citizens. Here’s how to help them.
Two years ago, the Guardian described how Venezuela’s devastating economic downturn was ravaging its hospitals. Since then, things have only gotten worse. Much worse.
The latest assault on ACA [Obamacare]: DOJ won’t defend it in court
In a dramatic break from a long-standing norm of defending federal laws, Attorney General Jeff Session has announced that the Department of Justice will