The anti-choice mask comes off in Texas.
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Posted inTAP
Free Speech at Work
The boss has far too much power to silence the political expression of employees.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Euthanize This (Merger)
The merger of Cigna and Humana, America’s fifth- and sixth-largest for-profit health insurers, would create a monster middleman to ‘compete’ with the undisputed giant, UnitedHealth.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Abortion Confusion in Texas
State courts must now decide how to handle life-threatening pregnancy issues that state attorneys, lawmakers, and medical officials refuse to clear up.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The AMA Debates a Federal Ban on Corporate Medicine
A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘$23 Billion Up for Grabs’
Joe Biden’s embrace of VA outsourcing just got worse.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
Posted inWorking in America
Kaiser Workers Say They Want the Old Kaiser Back
Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Heads They ‘Cha-Ching!’; Tails They Take Away Your Malpractice Insurance
A tale of two private equity–spawned medical mega-practices
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Who’ll Stop the Raid?
A little-noticed Justice Department case alleges that Alabama’s Medical Properties Trust engaged in ‘fraudulent conveyance.’