Two German states engaged scientists to stage a live concert indoors and test the likelihood of COVID-19 infection. The New York Times reports that more than 1,400 mask-wearing volunteers attended...
Diane Archer
Coronavirus: How to transform our broken prescription drug...
Dozens of organizations have signed on to a letter that explains how to transform our broken prescription drug sector for the public good. Without major change in the prescription drug sector, we...
Coronavirus: Medical testing corporations offer little and...
As thousands of companies experience record losses and millions of Americans lose their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, the medical testing business–much like the health insurance...
Coronavirus: Coping with dementia
It’s hard enough for people in great mental health to sleep at night or to cope from one day to the next during this pandemic. Imagine the toll the novel coronavirus is taking on the nearly six...
Coronavirus: Strike teams step in to help nursing home residents...
Nursing homes and other residential facilities have been hard hit by the novel coronavirus, with residents and staff easily representing 40 percent of lives lost in the US. What do you do when...
Which states have hospitals that deliver appropriate care, good...
Even though health care is often about life and death, and out-of-pocket hospital costs can push many Americans with health insurance into medical bankruptcy, we know a lot more about the best...
Trump promises to terminate Social Security
In a press conference last week, President Donald Trump promised to terminate Social Security if he is reelected. While he never said that he was ending the program, he called for ending the payroll...
Health insurers spread lies to promote shareholder value
In a Washington Post op-ed, Wendell Potter, president of the Center for Health and Democracy and a former Cigna executive, explains that his job at Cigna was to spread lies to Americans about health...
Coronavirus: Second-quarter profits double for big health...
Reed Abelson reports for The New York Times that second-quarter profits doubled for big health insurers from the same period in 2019. The Affordable Care Act imposes a limit on the profit that health...
Coronavirus: Without Congressional action, many more older...
A new report by The New School’s Retirement Equity Lab finds that more than half of older workers may be forced to retire involuntarily as a result of the novel coronavirus. In June, the...