What Leads To 20,000+ Deaths per Year in American Kids? Autos + Guns = 35%

Source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754?query=featured_home

Commonwealth Report on U.S. Maternal Health Just Released.

The Decoupling of Health from Health Care

Mike Magee “Our health care system’s focus, at every phase of its development, but especially since its expansion and increasing sophistication since World War II, has been on maximizing opportunities for profit and/or career advancement for the players within it.” Code Blue: Inside the Medical Industrial Complex (Grove Atlantic Press, coming in Spring, 2019) In […]

AMA Tells Trump “No Way” on ACA

MEMORANDUM TO: Reporters, Editors, Producers and Interested Parties FROM: American Medical Association DATE: December 15, 2018 SUBJECT: Texas v. Azar Decision ______________________________________________________________________________ Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision is a stunning display of judicial activism. Judicial power does not extend to settling policy disputes or exercising general supervision over the other branches of the federal government. Congress […]

“A” Rating from NRA – The New Scarlet Letter

Mike Magee “The NRA’s A-rating used to be a badge of honor. On Election Day, it was a scarlet letter.” Those were the words of Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. And she had facts to back it up. More than 1000 candidates in the 2018 Mid-Term elections ran and won […]

Cardinal Bernardin to Trump on Health and the Lost Children.

Source: Wash Post 8/27/2018 For health professionals, committed to healing, providing health, and keeping families and communities whole, the many actions of President Trump are deeply offensive on multiple levels – but none more than the deliberate separation of immigrant children from their parents. According to the Washington Post, 528 children remain separated and 23 […]

When coders lose their jobs.

Mike Magee With health care now consuming close to 1 of every 5 dollars in America, it comes as no surprise that the sector is a major employer. No surprise either that many of those jobs deliver zero benefits when it comes to patient care. In fact, there are now 16 health care jobs for […]

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