SHARE        Monday, April 8, 2019
Despite Protestations of Bipartisanship, Many Healthcare Leaders Donate to Republicans et, recently, especially in the US, we have seen evidence that some health care organizations have become partisan, albeit stealthily, throwing their support behind political candidates, parties and organizations that may support their policy and regulatory goals, even while they may also support positions that go against the health care and public health mission, or even may be frankly anti-democratic...

SHARE        Monday, October 29, 2018
Issues at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference Many issues brought up at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, were relevant to the problems of conflicts of interest, crime and corruption in health care which we often discuss on Health Care Renewal, and hence bear repeating here.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 12, 2018
Free Press? Don't Need No Stinkin' Free Press Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Tries to Intimidate Modern Healthcare Journalist

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 24, 2017
Health Care Corruption No Longer a Taboo Topic? as corruption, and crime are increasingly linked to the most powerful leaders in the US, it becomes harder to deny that we have a huge problem with corruption in general, and thus maybe it becomes harder to deny we have a huge problem with health care corruption

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 8, 2017
Health Insurance For Me But Not for Thee? something surprising on the sixth page of the amendment: an exemption for the health insurance of legislators and their staff. This means that members of Congress and their aides would be guaranteed access to Obamacare provisions that constituents could lose.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 24, 2017
Pontifications About Health Care Reform Written by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo - Worse Than We Think Perceptions that the US health care system is dysfunctional and needs major reform go way back. A timeline from the Tampa Bay Times noted President Theodore Roosevelt's proposal for a national health service in 1912. Nonetheless, as we have discussed endlessly, most attempts at reform failed, and health care dysfunction seems to be getting worse.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 29, 2016
It Has Come to This? - Donald Trump's "Truly Absurd," "Word Salad," "Gibberish" Donald Trump doesn't have a health care plan, doesn't have health care advisors

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Health Care Renewal: Stealth Public Relations and Health Advocacy, Special Pleadings and the Opposition to Guidelines Di Health Care Renewal: Stealth Public Relations and Health Advocacy, Special Pleadings and the Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 19, 2015
Health Care Renewal: A Quiet Turn of the Revolving Door - Director of NIMH to Go Directly to Google Life Sciences Dr Insel clearly helped steer current US government mental health care research and policy towards its current course. Now he is going directly, not with any sort of delay or waiting period, to a commercial firm poised to take advantage of the current direction of US mental health care research and policy.

(9 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 26, 2015
Turn That Door Around - A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA It seems to be the season of the revolving door in health care. The latest version got some media attention, because it involves one of the most important health care leadership positions in the US government, the Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, the case actually seems much more serious than what the media has recently reported.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 14, 2015
Who Benefits? - Despite All its Troubles, Multi-Million Dollar Executive Compensation Persists at UPMC Health Care Renewal: Who Benefits? - Despite Data Breaches, Staff Cuts, Vulnerable Patients' Coverage Cuts, Transplant Program Probation, Multi-Million Dollar Executive Compensation Persists at UPMC

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 1, 2015
All the President's Trade Negotiators - Revolving Doors, Regulatory Capture, & Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Deal Health Care Renewal: All the President's Trade Negotiators - Revolving Doors, Regulatory Capture, and Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Agreements

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 18, 2015
Obama's Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Agreements could have major effects on patients' and the public's health Health Care Renewal: All the President's Trade Negotiators - Revolving Doors, Regulatory Capture, and Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Agreements

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 29, 2014
Health Care Renewal: The Hospital CEO as Scrooge - Hired Managers Get Raises While Presiding Over Deficits, Layoffs and Health Care Renewal: The Hospital CEO as Scrooge - Hired Managers Get Raises While Presiding Over Deficits, Layoffs and Pay Cuts

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 16, 2014
Are Million Dollar Plus Business Trained Managers the Right People to Lead Health Care in the Time of Ebola? the hazards posed by generic management deluded by business school dogma running health care institutions in the time of Ebola. In particular, my focus is the management of the US hospital at which one patient died, and two nurses were infected, based on what has come out since October 6.

(43 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Can Our Dysfunctional Health Care System Contain Ebola? While many would have us believe the US has the Best health care system in the world, statistics say US processes and outcomes are at best mediocre & there is reason to worry that it will be harder than many expect for the US to deal with Ebola. There is already some evidence that some of the sorts of problems we have been discussing for years made it harder for the US to cope with even the so far limited incursion of Ebola.