Medicare

Yesterday, Greg Sargent started the news cycle rolling at the Washington Post with a simple question: Will Donald Trump really go through with all of it?.

I had a pleasant dinner the other night with an old friend who's in private business now. He used to work at the Treasury Department and he was on Hillary's Treasury transition team this year. He's a young guy who I met when, practically straight out of Harvard, he ran a great congressional campaign in a very red district. He didn't win but he's been using what he learned from the experience to help other candidates since then.

A new study from the University of Kentucky has confirmed that the rate of babies born addicted to opioids has risen at an utterly alarming rate.

What drug company CEOs are doing to patients for a few dollars more (source)by Gaius PubliusSky-high drug prices are a scandal, but everyone knows that, even those responsible for the prices. They're also a source of enormous profit and wealth, which is the problem.

Paul Ryan's political raison d'être has been clear since he was first elected to Congress-- slashing the New Deal and subsequent social insurance policies to ribbons. That's what he got from reading Ayn Rand's books when he was just a little right-wing nut in high school.

Drug companies don’t need to give doctors thousands of dollars in kickbacks to sway them to prescribe their medications and implant their devices. A new study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that doctors who received a free meal from a pharmaceutical company were more likely to prescribe the drug the company was promoting than doctors who received no such meals.

At least Trump doesn't support "saving" Social Security and Medicare by cutting the benefits, the way Paul Ryan, most Republicans and the Wall Street-owned New Dems do. Right? As with all policy matters involving Trump, who knows?

The CEO of Novus Health Care Services ordered nurses to hasten the deaths of patients by overdose.
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I'm not a doctor or a nurse but I got a good look at the health care system in 2015. I spent the last 16 months battling cancer. (My doctors and nurses and care-givers did most of the battling; but I was there.) As horrible as the whole universe around cancer treatment is, there was one thing that was very lucky: I was diagnosed after my 65th birthday. Medicare. I don't know what the whole treatment wound up costing. I stopped counting after a million dollars.

by Gaius PubliusThanks to the Democratic primary, there's been a lot of discussion on the left about the benefits and ills of ACA, the Obamacare public health law, versus single-payer and "Medicare For All," which Bernie Sanders is advocating. Clinton is a strong defender of the ACA and a strong, if disingenuous, critic of Sanders' Medicare For All.