Tag: healthcare
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Louisiana Voters Reject Cassidy and His Costly Healthcare Policies
by Jeff Crouere, ©2026 (May 17, 2026) — On Saturday, incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) finished in a distant third place in the Louisiana Republican primary with only 24% of the vote. He missed the runoff, likely ending his political career. It was a stinging defeat for the longtime politician and two-term U.S. Senator. Of course, a…
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Fast Food Medicine Is Exactly That
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Apr. 6, 2026) — American medicine has been industrialized — standardized, franchised, and value-engineered in ways that maximize throughput and revenue while systematically reducing the quality of care delivered to individual patients. This is not primarily the product of malicious actors. It is the emergent property of incentive…
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The Safe and Meaningful Integration of AI with Medicine is Possible
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 30, 2025) — In 2004, as a young Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, I made a suggestion that, in retrospect, required neither radical technology nor prophetic genius. I proposed that a hospital system—one of the…
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Health Policy Reform Needs a Joint Congressional Committee
by William L. Kovacs, ©2025 (Nov. 24, 2025) — The recent government shutdown drew a bright line between the permanent health-care subsidies that benefit higher-income workers and union members and the temporary, annually renewed subsidies available to lower-income Americans. More than a century after Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party first placed national health insurance on…
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A Rational Moment: Kennedy and Oz Kill Back-Door Mandate for COVID Hospital Death Protocol that Killed Hundreds of Thousands
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 2, 2025) — In a quiet move with enormous consequences, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advised by Dr. Mehmet Oz, formally repealed a Biden-era CMS policy through regulatory change embedded in the FY 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System…
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The One Big Beautiful Bill: A Shrill Democratic Lament
by Dominic Rapini, American Businessman and Political Commentator, ©2025 (Jul. 8, 2025) — WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a shocking turn of events, the dastardly One Big Beautiful Bill has passed, and we, the nation’s proud, pint-sized, and perpetually shrill Democrats, are here to wail, gnash our teeth, and warn you about the coming apocalypse—by which we…
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Rooting Out Healthcare “Fraud-on/at-FDA” Needs a Precision Scalpel, Not a Chainsaw: The False Claims Act
Submitted to Popular Rationalism by Hooman Noorchasm, MD, PhD (Feb. 23, 2025) — President Trump’s most precise tool for recovering US taxpayer dollars lost to fraud in the healthcare arena is President Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War-era law, known as “The Lincoln Law”—today, the False Claims Act. Instead of an indiscriminate chainsaw, Mr. Trump would be…
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Healthlion Medical Solutions and LionHeart Family Institute Complete Study on Physician-Owned Family Practices in the U.S.
by Contributor (Feb. 11, 2025) — Healthlion Medical Solutions, in collaboration with the LionHeart Family Institute, has finalized a year-long, nonpartisan research initiative exploring the landscape of physician-owned family practices in the United States. This study, backed by the “Physicians for a Better Future” political action committee, aimed to assess the challenges and advantages of…
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Healthcare Reform and Return to a Golden Age of Medicine
by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm, ©2024 (Dec. 17, 2024) — Close the borders, repeal the Emergency Medical Treatment Act, and give hospital Healthcare Systems ‘privity’ to personal injury insurance settlements. This ‘privity’ model will give emergency services and continuing care given by hospitals to patients injured in accidents first access to settlement, instead of lawyers. That is…
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Big Pharma is Just as Woke as Bud Light
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2023 (Jul. 30, 2023) — After many years of abuse, conservatives have finally become tired of corporations pushing wokeness down our throats. As a result, effective economic boycotts have been launched. This can be verified by asking any of the corporate executives behind the misguided marketing decisions of Target, Kohl’s,…
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You Have the Unalienable Right to Manage Your Own Healthcare
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 12, 2022) — Congratulations to those who recognize your freedom to take charge of your own healthcare and reject the deadly vaccine “mandates” spewed by insurgent federal, state, and local government employees. One of our next steps is to require local medical personnel and bureaucrats to prove by autopsy, tissue…
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5 Problems Older American Adults Routinely Encounter
by Contributor (Dec. 14, 2020) — The coronavirus pandemic has brought to light the desperate state of healthcare in the United States, with medical professionals and healthcare facilities pushed almost to their breaking point. Millions of Americans have contracted the virus and hundreds of thousands have lost their lives since the pandemic began. However, one…
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Global Elderly Care Systems
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE AGING POPULATION by Contributor (Jun. 4, 2019) — At present, the world has an aging population, a change that has largely been triggered by improving healthcare and quality of life. It is important for elderly people to be well looked after in their later life to keep them happy…
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Does Trump Want Sessions to Go?
DESCRIBES ATTORNEY GENERAL AS “BELEAGUERED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 24, 2017) — Beginning at approximately 7:00 AM EDT on Monday, President Donald Trump issued three tweets appearing to reiterate his frustration with his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. “So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes…
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Of the ACA, Feckless Jurists and Stupidity
SHAKING “THE VERY FOUNDATIONS” OF HEALTHCARE by Joseph DeMaio, ©2017 (Jul. 8, 2017) — In a prior post, your faithful servant noted that if hypocrisy did not already exist, a liberal (and thus, most Democrats, media moguls and university professors) would invent it at breakfast merely to survive until lunch. Lamentably, a parallel exists with…
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Capitol Hill Conservative and Moderate GOP Leaders Should Debate HealthCare
CAN AN INTER-PARTY DIVISION BE “TRUMPED?” by Oscar Y. Harward, ©2017 (Jun. 24, 2017) — This time around, Washington, DC HealthCare legislation is for the Republican Party to repeal and replace ObamaCare as promised in previous elections. Enact a new family-based HealthCare policy. President Trump should insist that GOP leaders especially allow Capitol Hill conservative…
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Trust in Trump
“KEEP THE FAITH” by Dwight Kehoe, Editor, TPATH, ©2017 (Mar. 29, 2017) — These past few weeks have stirred much consternation among so many of the irredeemable and deplorable Trump supporters. There has been anger and even some vitriol splashed across the realm of social media. TPATH is not concerned in the least with the…
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Into the Swamp
“THE WORLD IS LISTENING NOW” by Dwight Kehoe, Editor, TPATH, ©2016 (Nov. 14, 2016) — From the minute Donald J. Trump announced he intended to make America great again, the leaches, the crooks, the embezzlers, the high-living elites and the establishment political leaders felt the earth move under their feet. They understood succinctly the threat…
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What A Difference Eight Years Makes
HOW AN UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL MOVEMENT WAS BORN by Jeff Crouere, ©2016 (Nov. 11, 2016) — In November of 2008, the American conservative movement was rocked by the overwhelming victory of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th President. In that election, Obama was not bashful about his plans. He was the epitome of a liberal, calling for…