Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Vaccine Confusion Reigns Under MAHA Regime
The best solution is something every other major economy has already figured out: universal health care.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Congressional Drug-Pricing Reforms Upend Trump’s Strategy
He has typically allied with Big Pharma, pointing fingers at pharmacy benefit managers. But a bipartisan agreement could do away with that gambit.
Posted inPolitics
Crypto-Backed California Republican Attacks Opponent for Owning Crypto
It’s part of a Vietnamese-language red-baiting campaign by Rep. Michelle Steel, who faces a stiff challenge in California’s 45th Congressional District against veteran and pharmacy owner Derek Tran.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Small-Business Regulators Highlight Protection From Predation
Contrary to the discussion at the presidential level, small businesses are seeking access to credit and a level playing field for their enterprises.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Bipartisan Reform Opportunity Staring Kamala Harris in the Face
Both parties want to crack down on pharmacy benefit managers. The vice president could help get it done.
Posted inTAP
FTC Comes for PBMs
Today on TAP: An interim report shows how pharmaceutical middlemen raise drug prices and damage care.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies
UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs—independent pharmacies—out of business.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’
Doctors didn’t think it was possible to loathe the world’s biggest health care profiteer any more. Then came the hack that set half their bookkeeping systems on fire.