Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are discussing an agreement that would lock the world’s second-most-populous country into exclusive prescription drug arrangements.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Dialysis Duopoly Spends Big to Protect Profits in California
A scam to get patients to switch from Medicare to private insurance for dialysis care is being threatened by a bill in the Golden State. DaVita and Fresenius, the dialysis giants, have placed enormous funds into opposing it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Prospect Debate: The Cost of Sanders’s Single-Payer Health Plan
An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders’s health plan
Posted inAmerica and the World
Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?
An exchange over whether the United States should try to press the fight against the Islamic State or abandon it entirely.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The European Prospect (Fall Preview)
With all the pathologies of the 1930s resurgent, Europe’s experiment in economic and social union has never been more at risk.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Refugee Blues
Right-wing, anti-immigrant nationalism has been on the rise in Europe. Can EU leaders still learn from history?
Posted inWorking in America
Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle Over Hair
While men’s hair can often be neutral, women’s hair is fraught with questions of sexuality, professionalism, and identity.
Posted inWorking in America
How to Live Happily with Robots
It takes extensive government intervention to assure that gains of automation are broadly shared.
