Red Mosquito

Green Habit wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Anyone know what the total amount of medical debt is in the US? May google skills are failing me today.

I tried this:

4/5 wrote:You could always just allow people to sell a kidney.

B wrote:

4/5 wrote:You could always just allow people to sell a kidney.

People with 2 working kidneys





People with 1 failing kidney and $100

tragabigzanda wrote:Purdue Pharma just filed for bankruptcy. This was expected, as the terms of their multi-state settlement were reported to require them to file for bankruptcy, then restructure as a sort of treatment-based trust. Still crazy, and I think the story is far from over.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Purdue Pharma just filed for bankruptcy. This was expected, as the terms of their multi-state settlement were reported to require them to file for bankruptcy, then restructure as a sort of treatment-based trust. Still crazy, and I think the story is far from over.

What did the business do, exactly?

Helped kill over 200k by flooding communities with opioids

Lobbyists either helped draft or made extensive revisions to opinion columns published by three state lawmakers in a way that warned against the dangers of Medicare-for-all and other government involvement in health care, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

Montana state Rep. Kathy Kelker (D) and Sen. Jen Gross (D) acknowledged in interviews that editorials they published separately about the single-payer health proposal included language provided by John MacDonald, a lobbyist and consultant in the state who disclosed in private emails that he worked for an unnamed client.

Gross said MacDonald contacted her on behalf of the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, a multimillion-dollar industry group founded in 2018 and funded by hospitals, private insurers, drug companies, and other private health-care firms.

None of the lawmakers’ columns disclose that they were written with the help of a lobbyist.

The emails show how, even at the state and local levels, lobbyists are trying to bend public opinion away from an idea that has seized much of the debate during the current Democratic presidential primary. Two candidates, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.), have proposed a massive redesign of the health-care system that would place all Americans on a single government health insurer.