NYTimes: Biden Plan to Cut Billions in Medicare Fraud Ignites Lobbying Frenzy
Biden Plan to Cut Billions in Medicare Fraud Ignites Lobbying Frenzy https://nyti.ms/42Kk0LR
Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready. – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/18/senior-care-costs-too-high/
NYTimes: Fixing Social Security and Medicare: Where the Parties Stand
Fixing Social Security and Medicare: Where the Parties Stand https://nyti.ms/3EiVO8r
NYTimes: I Am the C.E.O. of Uber. Gig Workers Deserve Better.
Important ideas on regulating the gig economy I Am the C.E.O. of Uber. Gig Workers Deserve Better. https://nyti.ms/3fD8GY0
Modi stumbles: India’s deepening coronavirus crisis
Article illustrates the dammed if you, do, damned if you don’t aspect of lockdowns as well as the politics of pandemics. Modi stumbles: India’s deepening coronavirus crisis – https://on.ft.com/3g3Xc0G via @FT
Private Equity Lands Billion-Dollar Backdoor Hospital Bailout
Ridiculous how PE pumps debt into a company and only uses dry powder for new companies rather than supporting the companies they layered in debt. Private Equity Lands Billion-Dollar Backdoor Hospital Bailout [“https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-02/private-equity-lands-billion-dollar-backdoor-hospital-bailout”]
Thousands of cancer patients could die early due to coronavirus delays, study finds
The responses to Covid will be deemed a complete failure in at least one respect – the total lack of consideration of secondary impact of the lockdown. I rarely heard health pundits who advocated lockdown discuss thr secondary and tertiary costs. Long after it was clear hospital capacity wouldn’t be overwhelmed the public health experts …
Weighing Sweden’s Coronavirus Model – The Wall Street Journal.
Weighing Sweden’s Coronavirus Model The global economy needs a leader as lockdowns are lifted and countries fear a second wave if lockdowns are relaxed to quickly. The Swedish model can be that model and happy to see WHO endorsing it as a legitimate approach. The worst case scenarios never materialized in terms of Covid disease …
The Irrationality of UK Covid-19 Lockdown
As we approach the end of the six week lock down in the UK and talks of extending until June, it’s time for a reality check. Below are some facts that reveal the hypocrisy of the UK lockdown. These stories are replicated in many other places (in fact in a number of ways, the UK …
COVID-19: Tackling a dual economic and health crisis
COVID-19: Tackling a dual economic and health crisis https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-tackling-dual-economic-health-crisis-rod-dubitsky