Tag: healthcare

I am not going to dig too deep into this topic today, but after my recent experience it becomes more and more apparent that we need a universal single payer system and that pricing for health care services is completely out of control. Early in October, I had my second…

Although there are some faces on the coronavirus task force, you have to wonder about Vice President Mike Pence’s (and the White House’s) when his first two picks are Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. Money, Money, Money, Money? His third appointment was Surgeon General…

Whoops…from my new subscription to the Your 1600 Daily e-newsletter…President Donald Trump is touting recent job growth…one of the indicators he’s showing includes jobs in healthcare. If the American Health Care Act passes…what are the chances that jobs in healthcare plummet?

CVS Caremark announced plans to eliminate the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products by October 1, 2014. I have to applaud them for doing so but wonder why it’s going to take so long. But this is something that I have been advocating for some time. I don’t think…

Now that I have your attention…this isn’t the latest gun rampage in a public place…it isn’t a car bomb in a world hot spot…it is the wanton murder and injury to AMERICANS who trusted their doctors and hospitals and health care infrastructure to keep them safe and heal their pains….

Our very own case of buyers remorse senator ron johnson, has been known to say “I am praying that the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare”. Rojo even likes to equate the passing of "Obamacare" with the end of the free world as we know it. While ron johnson is a ridiculous…

In economics, the concept of the externality helps explain the “knock-on” effects of economic decisions and the unintended consequences of choices.  Acid rain is a classic example of a pollution externality.  Want to see another one?

Deposit this one in the “WTF?” file.  Secretary of the Health Department Dennis Smith has appointed Karen McKeown as the new State Health Officer. First, you should know what does the Department of Public Health does for the citizens of Wisconsin. Public health makes sure that: We learn ways to improve…

Last year, I wrote many times on Rebecca Kleefisch who took time away from fighting cancer to do what she could politically to make sure that not everyone would have the same access to life saving treatment as she did. I even gave her my inaugeral Turkey of the Year…