Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Industry of Illness It is a reality of our time that the same companies promoting health care products are also largely responsible for underwriting their research. Skepticism about this model of business has led to pharmacoeconomic studies of the popular antidepressants, which demonstrate a [...]
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Spending More, Getting Less — The Public System Because of their identity as government programs, societal scepticism about the US government’s ability to manage efficiently, and the relative reduction of power and status allotted to the primary recipients of public health care (the poor and [...]
Update: Feb 15, 2010 — Since this post was originally published, the Democrats lost their vote in the US Senate, but the Obama Administration is still pushing for a major overhaul of the American health care system. Twenty-one members of Congress (12 Democrats and 9 Republicans) have been invited to a conference on healthcare set [...]
In March of 2009 David Eaves suggested that GCPEDIA will save the public service . As a public servant and a GCPEDIA administrator, I’d like to believe he’s right. His main argument was that GCPEDIA has the potential to become the repository of much knowledge that will be lost (or at least not conveniently accessible) once [...]
Should health care be rationed? It’s really a moot question because health care is already being rationed in the United States. HMOs (health maintenance organizations), like any other (successful) insurance company, remain profitable by taking in as much money as possible, while paying out as little as possible. Instead of looking at your car, calculating [...]
“Led proudly by the Fox News channel, today’s media seems to have torn a page from the Vince McMahon handbook of television drama. ” One of the greatest things about living in America is the comfort of always knowing you’re right. If your military, for example, happens to bomb a country halfway around the world [...]
If fear is the yoke that keeps the American people living in ignorance, then patriotism is a set of horse blinders, preventing them from seeing that things can, or should be, any different. The media tells Americans that they live in the greatest nation on Earth. Everything is great in America. Kinney is the Great [...]
All hail Wal-Mart, the largest employer in America. It ranked sixth on the Forbes 500 list of companies in 2003. As a result of it’s huge influence on local economies, Wal-Mart has come to expect generous incentives (popularly dubbed “corporate welfare”) from state governments, in return for building in their area (Meyerson, 2003; Associated Press, [...]
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