Tag Archives: Healthcare

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A piece I believe capsulizes what many of us are wondering. Where are our politicians, Senators, Representatives, and healthcare people. Why are they so silent as Trump and his keeper Musk slowly disassemble the nation. There are consequences to this. It will not be Trump, Musk, Congress, or doctors and healthcare who will bear the […] The post Public Health Proponents Are Missing appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]David Frum’s piece in The Atlantic (to which I subscribe) appears to believe the Covid deniers did win. I tend to disagree with his findings. For example and strictly on deaths alone he notes . . . “once vaccines were introduced, Republicans became much more likely to die than Democrats. In the spring of 2021, […] The post Did the Covid-19 Deniers Win? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]There’s no question that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans. Whether that jump was direct or indirect and whether it occurred in a lab or in the Wuhan wet market is unknown. The Chinese government has been less than completely forthcoming about the COVID 19 epidemiology. There’s no question that bird flu can jump from […] The post Will the next Wuhan be in the US? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I grew up in the South. While there were no snake handlers in my town, there were fundamentalists in the area who practiced snake handling. I see no significant difference between those snake handlers in East Tennessee and folks in West Texas who refuse to vaccinate their kids for preventable diseases. Both are tempting God, […] The post Measles and Christian heresy appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Kennedy, an “unfathomable” nominee in the eyes of public health experts, has questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, tied gay and transgender identities to chemical exposure, pushed to remove fluoride from drinking water, suggested COVID-19 was genetically engineered to target certain races, claimed Black people may have different immune systems and suggested anti-depressants are […] The post Republicans* approve quack to...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]““Contrary to the hysteria, redirecting billions of allocated NIH spending away from administrative bloat means there will be more money and resources available for legitimate scientific research, not less,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said.” Here’s how you know they’re lying. If they were telling the truth, there would be no net reduction to the […] The post They’re lying appeared first on Angry Bear.

from Dean Baker I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful insights into the likely motive for the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare (UHC). According to media accounts, the suspect, Luigi Mangione, was angered by his own and others’ experiences being turned down when submitting claims for healthcare service. United and other insurers make a profit by restricting the claims they pay, so their profit...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]UnitedHealthcare posted profits of $22 billion in 2023, as many Americans struggle to afford the medical care they need. Witty reportedly took home $23.5 million that same year, while Thompson got over $10 million. Yes, United Healthcare is profitable. At whose expense? Delay, Deny, and Defend is a violation of consumer reliance on their insurance companies as written by […] The post The spider’s web called Healthcare...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Perhaps, I am wrong? We have Trump and others deciding the livelihood of a nation’s population who have obviously walked a different path to success than those they are making decisions for today. In 2016, Trump first came to office as the Pres (in case you forgot). His taking office was the result of the […] The post The Economics of Killing Medicaid . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The uninsured numbers dropped since the advent of the ACA. Lower costs would have been available if one Congressional Rep from Michigan had not interfered. I will find that information and add it. Still 26 million uninsured in the US. The State of Health Insurance in America, Econofact, Mark Shepard The Issue: Universal access to […] The post Healthcare in the United States appeared first on Angry Bear.