In the clip below, courtesy of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver takes on prescription drug marketing in a clip that will leave you terrified, enraged, and laughing all at the same time. At a bit over 17 minutes, it’s … Continue reading
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I just re-read an article by T.R. Reid (link) that ran in The Washington Post back in 2009 August 23, but it’s worth a look, because we Americans still have many misconceptions about how health insurance and healthcare work in … Continue reading
Yesterday’s edition of Healthcare Triage looks at the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” one year after its less-than-spectacular launch: Link: http://youtu.be/v-LzLGjNi18 The speaker is Aaron Carroll MD, a pediatrician who also blogs and vlogs about healthcare. You can read his … Continue reading
A survey conducted earlier this year by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the public remains poorly informed about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and about healthcare in general. For example, in the past few years healthcare costs have been … Continue reading
I just read an interesting article in the September issue of The Progressive magazine on a subject I’ve been curious about, namely, health insurance in the Netherlands. It’s interesting because the Dutch system is based on private health insurance and … Continue reading
With the Supreme Court currently taking up the Affordable Care Act, the news media are talking about the individual mandate, typically describing it, incorrectly, as a requirement that all Americans (or “almost all”) have health insurance. This understandably leads people … Continue reading
One of the hard things about having a political discussion (besides the fact that a lot of people tend to go crazy whenever the general subject comes up) is that far too often we’re operating from different notions of the … Continue reading