Medical journals and conferences regularly reject presentations and articles that overturn conventional wisdom, even when that wisdom is based on flimsy underlying data. This can have dire consequences.
It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven health care system.
No country in the world has seen life expectancy plummet during the pandemic as sharply as the US. The gap between the United States and its peer income countries is now over five years, which is an incredible gap.
While the pricing data is unlikely to lower costs, said one critic, it may help "produce the political will for real reform."
Millions of Americans – as many as 25% of the population – are delaying getting medical help because of skyrocketing costs
Ecuador will take legal action against an oil company and an American research center for the use of genetic material obtained illegitimately from indigenous peoples.
Agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership distribute wealth upward. Real 'free trade' can lower medical costs for everyone.
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