Health disparities have bewildered public health advocates for decades. It has long been known that health status and health outcomes often vary by education, ethnicity, race, gender and numerous other factors. Sidenote: when you control for education, the other variables lose much of their significance.
Category: Health Reform
Why we bury organs worth thousands of dollars
On the evening of September 29, 1994 Reginald Green and his wife Margaret were driving on the A3 motorway while vacationing in Southern Italy. Their two young children, 7-year old Nicholas and 4-year old Eleanor, were asleep in the backseat when tragedy struct. Two men thought to be members of the Italian mafia mistook their rental car for one belonging to a jeweler. They followed closely behind Green’s rental car and then pulled alongside. Their faces masked, they shouted at Green in Italian. Green accelerated to get away. When Green didn’t pull over the men fired shots into the back of his rental car striking his son Nicholas in the head. Although mafia violence was not uncommon in Southern Italy the fact that a young boy was killed while vacationing with his family shocked the nation. The police spared no expense hunting down Nicholas’ killers. Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello were arrested three days later and ultimately convicted of his murder.
The Worst of Obamacare
Ever since Obamacare became law, my colleagues and I have been writing about a race to the bottom in the exchanges – where health plans try to attract the healthy and avoid the sick. The result: people with serious health problems are being denied access to the doctors and hospitals they desperately need.
April 2022 Health Care News is now available
April 2022 Health Care News is now available:
- Congress Turns to the Think Tanks for Help
- Democrats Go After Short Term Plans
- California Punts on Single Payer Plan
- Fauci’s Secret War on Great Barrington Declaration Authors
- Insurers Ordered to Cover Sex Changes
- Vaccine Skeptics Listed as “Terrorists”
- Mark Cuban Launches Online, Low-Cost Generic Pharmacy
- Military Data on Vaccine Adverse Effects Disappears
- FDA Advisor: Agency is Ignoring Vaccine Side Effects
- Sweden’s Approach to the Virus Wins Accolades
- Johns Hopkins Study: Lockdowns Don’t Work
- Goodman: Seniors Deserve an HSA
- Blase: Subsidies Make Health Care Cost More