Yves here. Having lowest of low end retailers take a flier with mobile clinics is yet another proof of the poor state of health care in the US. I would be curious to learn how countries in Europe encourage/incentivize doctors to practice out in the boonies. One can envision remedies, like scholarships for doctors who agree to practice in designated areas for at least five years, but dreaming up solutions and getting them implemented are in two different universes.
Needless to say, giving the poverty of local alternatives, some of the users of this service are fans. But your humble blogger is not comfortable with a purely profit-motivated party so remote from the health care industry providing treatments.
What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America
Tag: Private Insurance
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
Right now, well-funded lobbyists from big health insurance companies are leading a campaign on Capitol Hill to get Members of Congress and Senators of both parties to sign on to a letter designed to put them on the record “expressing strong support” for the scam that is Medicare Advantage.
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
The US claims to honour his memory, even as it defiles his dreams.
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
If Healthcare Was Honest | Honest Ads
What if hospitals and health insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and others were actually honest about how horrifically terrible they are? Roger Horton investigates.
If Healthcare Was Honest | Honest Ads
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
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Upcoming: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism’s Court Jester (YouTube)
Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers
The largest-ever Medicare premium increase will pad the pockets of insurance executives who donated millions to the president’s election campaign.
Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers
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Medicare limits coverage of controversial Alzheimer’s drug to those in clinical trials
Koch network pushes private-sector health-care agenda to counter Biden’s public option
Koch network pushes private-sector health-care agenda to counter Biden’s public option
Called the “personal option,” the plan is a collection of policy proposals geared toward the private sector that focuses on tax breaks, expanding health savings accounts and slashing regulations. The plan’s name and messaging are intended to contrast with Democrats’ push for a public option, which would give people a chance to buy in to a government-run health-care program that would compete with private insurers.
Sanders Demands Reform After CBO Reveals High Drug Prices for Medicare Part D
U.S. private health industry’s coronavirus profiteering a political choice
Insurance Companies Are Spending Millions on Attack Ads Against Medicare for All
Health Insurance Companies are spending millions of dollars on astroturfed attack ads against Medicare for All.
— Read on www.mintpressnews.com/health-insurance-companies-millions-attack-ads-medicare-for-all/263217/
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