The world will need to stop piggybacking on US pharma
New Medicare drug negotiating rules could change the global pharmaceutical research and pricing landscape The world will need to stop piggybacking on US pharma – https://on.ft.com/3En59Mg via @FT
Babylon Disrupted the UK’s Health System. Then It Left | WIRED UK
On the perils and repeated failed promises of privatising UK NHS and the use of AI in healthcare https://www.wired.co.uk/article/babylon-disrupted-uk-health-system-then-left
Assisted-living homes are rejecting Medicaid and evicting seniors
America’s broken system of eldercare https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/06/seniors-assisted-living-medicaid-eviction/
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 …