French medics warn health service is on brink of collapse On the challenges of maintaining quality, universal health insurance. Even for a country that’s touted as having one of the best healthcare systems in the world, budget and staffing challenges abound. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/french-medics-health-service-collapse-doctors-nurses-protest-outside-french-health-ministry-strikes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report More evidence of disastrous right wing Tory austerity policies. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-storm-austerity-behind-130000-deaths-uk-ippr-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
A Secret to Better Health Care Important focus on the nexus of healthcare and social spending more generally. Bottom line is that improving social spending could reduce overall healthcare costs. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/health-care-social-services.html
Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them? https://nyti.ms/2YrJfAz
Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t be Able to Afford It. Reality is that most adults will bankrupt themselves and then become eligible for Medicaid. https://nyti.ms/2PWPxoB
Europe’s Alternative to Medicare for All Useful look at alternative universal health models https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-alternative-to-medicare-for-all-11555457596
DWP apologises for telling seriously ill man to find a job This is part of the Tory party brutalist neoliberal policies that gave the UK the Wondrush immigration scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/04/dwp-apologise-for-telling-seriously-ill-man-to-find-a-job?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
If You Do Medicare Sign-Up Wrong, It Will Cost You https://nyti.ms/2UCdAun
Calls for action on patients denied £100,000 cystic fibrosis drug https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/03/nhs-cystic-fibrosis-drug-orkambi-vertex?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Revealed: the free-market groups helping the tobacco industry Nice investigative piece by @guardiannews When is a think tank a lobbying group? I don’t buy the argument that donations don’t influence opinions. https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2019/jan/23/free-market-thinktanks-tobacco-industry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress