More expensive, no better outcomes
Declining Medicare reimbursement for traditional cataract surgery is incentivizing ophthalmologists to use pricey procedure at patient expense.
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Hospital jobs engine grinds to a halt
Indiscriminate cuts to the health care sector could send the economy into recession early next year.
Health care headed for a financing crisis
Uncompensated care for the uninsured is skyrocketing ahead of major cuts in federal funding, setting the stage for a major spike in insurance premiums for the privately insured.
Dispatches from the War on Science
GOP Sen. Rand Paul's obsession with Fauci and the Covid lab leak theory provides covers for the Trump regime's attack on legitimate research
Compounding the problem
The FDA staff says compounding pharmacies shouldn't be allowed to produce untested peptides. RFK Jr.'s stacked FDA advisory committee thinks otherwise.
Searching for scapegoats
Republicans want to blame Canada for the wildfires polluting the air and killing people in both countries. If they want a culprit, they should look in a mirror.
Trump regime's Lysenkoism draws pushback
OMB's proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of all government science grants has already drawn more than 98,000 comments -- almost all negative, including from Big Pharma and Biotech.
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.
The onrushing uninsurance crisis
The uninsured rate likely to soar to 11% this year. Skyrocketing private premiums are sure to follow.
Social movements' role in change
We need a movement with a Four Freedoms-style agenda for the 21st century.