Political labels help us sort ourselves, but get in the way of progress. Labels encourage us to combine our positions on issues to satisfy our perception of order. This muddles efforts to fix or improve anything. It would be better to tackle each issue on its merits: gun control, climate change, health care, access to education, immigration policies, trickle down tax laws and global alliances. The measure for any law or regulation should be based on what it is supposed . . .
Category: Healthcare
Medicaid and Opiods?
Is Medicaid worsening the Opiod Crisis? One argument being pushed by a Wisconsin Senator and the WSJ, is that Medicaid, an insurance program that provides low-cost health coverage to some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities delivers the pills and therefore is at fault. Follow the Money: Opiods are a $13-billion-a-year industry for Big Pharma. In 1998 a video was sent to 15,000 primary care doctors by Purdue Pharma, the company that has . . .