Hacker News with Generative AI: Health Care

Medicare Would Be in Real Danger of Collapse Under Dr Oz (jacobin.com)
By hoodwinking seniors into private Medicare Advantage plans, insurers profit by denying care and bankrupting hospitals. Continuing their crusade against Medicare, Dr Oz and the Trump administration plan to make those plans mandatory.
Medicare, Health Care, Politics, Insurance
10 points by howard941 6 days ago | 0 comments
Deadly bacteria have developed the ability to wipe out competitors (phys.org)
A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an antimicrobial genetic tool, eliminating its cousins and replacing them as the dominant strain.
Antibiotics, Bacteria, Science, Health Care, Evolution
5 points by zfg 11 days ago | 0 comments
Medicaid cuts could devastate elderly in Florida nursing homes (tampabay.com)
In nursing homes across Florida, elderly residents have much to lose from the spending cuts proposed in Washington, D.C.
Health Care, Florida, Nursing Homes, Politics
52 points by howard941 18 days ago | 61 comments
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies (statnews.com)
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
Politics, Health Care, Government, Employment
82 points by frigidwalnut 47 days ago | 47 comments
Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment? (npr.org)
The fury over the state of U.S. health care isn't going away.
Health Care, Politics, Social Movements, United States
4 points by rbanffy 110 days ago | 0 comments
Health Care Administration Wastes Half a Trillion Dollars Every Year (peoplespolicyproject.org)
Last week, an individual gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Bryan Thompson in the streets of Manhattan. The gunman wrote “deny,” “defend,” “depose” on the bullets he shot, suggesting that this killing was motivated by a dislike of UnitedHealthcare’s business practices, which are also the business practices of the private health insurance industry as a whole.
Health Care, Healthcare Costs, Business Practices, Violence
4 points by greenie_beans 113 days ago | 0 comments
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020) (randomcriticalanalysis.com)
Health Care, Economics, Analysis
139 points by jeffreyrogers 167 days ago | 268 comments
U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries (nbcnews.com)
The health system in the U.S. is failing, a startling new report finds.
Health Care, United States, Comparative Analysis, Healthcare Systems
12 points by ceejayoz 195 days ago | 1 comments
US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report (theguardian.com)
The United States health system ranked dead last in an international comparison of 10 peer nations, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.
Health Care, United States, International Comparisons, Reports
145 points by frans 196 days ago | 229 comments
Share of total health spending, by percentile (twitter.com)
Health Care, Economics, Data Visualization
76 points by black6 249 days ago | 118 comments
"Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care (arstechnica.com)
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Cost, Economics, United States
45 points by psychanarch 320 days ago | 94 comments