Tackling the Unhealthy Obsession with the ‘Health of the Nation’
Maureen Mullarkey writes at the Federalist about the troubling history of governments focusing on the nation’s health. Twentieth-century authoritarian regimes were obsessed with cleansing the “unfit”...
View ArticleNurses Union Battle is Bigger than Mission Hospital
North Carolina is in the middle of a union battle at Mission Hospital in Asheville. On September 4, 2020, The Daily News reported on the union ballot initiative’s potential implications across the...
View ArticleNHRMC agrees to partnership with Novant Health, UNC Health
In some non-COVID related health news, the New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) is moving forward with its proposed research and clinical partnership with Novant Health and UNC Health. The New...
View ArticleHow can hospitals better prepare for a potential second wave of Coronavirus?
When the Coronavirus began to spread in the U.S., no one knew what to expect. Public health officials weren’t sure what infections, hospitalizations, or deaths would look like in our country compared...
View ArticleCMS relaxes more regulations to help hospitals fight coronavirus
At both the state and federal level, much of the coronavirus policy response has focused on deregulatory efforts to assist the effort of frontline health care workers. Lawmakers and state leaders...
View ArticleHospitals to receive advanced Medicare payments
Hospitals around the country are preparing to handle the onslaught of patients who need care due to the spreading coronavirus. Some hospitals, like those in New York, are already facing a massive wave...
View ArticleLarge sum secured for hospitals in coronavirus relief package
Things could still change, but as of mid-day on Wednesday, it seems that the Congressional relief package for coronavirus response is all but done. Hospitals and the rest of the health care system have...
View ArticleThe grim reality of some “non-profit” hospitals
Earlier this week, I posted on the blog about a hospital CFO touting his hospital system’s monopoly power as a way to extract profitable reimbursement from the insurers in the area. This is a dim...
View ArticleThe reality of hospital system monopolies
I write a lot about hospital consolidations and the monopoly problem in health care (See here, here, here, here, and here). It’s widely accepted that hospital system consolidation and physician...
View ArticleTrump admin considering mandate for more healthcare price transparency
The Trump administration is weighing whether to require hospitals, doctors and other healthcare providers to disclose negotiated rates with insurers. According to the Wall Street Journal: Mandating...
View ArticleFormer CMS official calls Treasurer’s plan “responsible, generous”
Legislation has been filed to stop Treasuer Dale Folwell form instituting his proposed changes to the reimbursement model the State Health Plan uses. The battle over how the state’s largest purchaser...
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Why “progressives” hate dollar stores and tax cuts
Can you imagine being the kind of person who actually wants to make poor people poorer, deliberately, having convinced yourself you can make them so poor they’ll choose “properly”? That’s a lot to...
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The Virginia horror was once legal and was especially bad in North Carolina
People are rightly horrified by this news out of Virginia that a doctor performed hysterectomies on women without their consent. But last century, forced involuntary sterilization was official state...
View ArticleJustice Thomas gives an unsettling history lesson on eugenics and abortion
In his concurring opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood, Justice Clarence Thomas gives a deep dive on the disturbing, nauseating true racism of the eugenics of the 20th century Progressives, a movement...
View Article‘The fact that the minimum wage destroys jobs was once its main selling point’
The New Republic reviews an important new book by Thomas C. Leonard: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era. Among his revelations: The minimum wage was...
View ArticleEugenicists wanted the minimum wage BECAUSE it would keep poor blacks from...
The sordid history of progressives and their eugenics advocacy extends beyond state-sanctioned forced sterilization of “undesirables,” “imbeciles,” “morons,” and “inferior races.” They were engaged in...
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Eugenics compensation included in the budget
A potential major victory for justice in North Carolina: the state budget bill would include compensation for victims of the state’s forced-sterilization program. Details include: $50,000 per qualified...
View ArticleFirst day of session brings an array of bill filings
Lawmakers have wasted no time filing a number of bills that they hope will become law during the 2013 long session of the General Assembly. Companion bills that would change the state’s unemployment...
View ArticleThe abortion movement: spot the theme
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement (click here to read about eugenics in N.C. and here to sample eugenics literature), discussing Planned...
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