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FDA Blocks Better Sunblocks – Commentary
Thanks in part to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Americans do not have access to all sunscreens The United States is in the full throes of summer. After a rainy spring, summer arrived in my home state of Texas a couple of months ago. The sun has burned off the cloud cover, and my…
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Hospitals Are Responsible for Rising Health Care Prices—Report
New data shows hospitals are responsible for escalating health care prices, due to the lack of market incentives to curb costs. A growing number of Americans are having difficulty paying their medical bills, due to rising health care prices. In response, some states are using tax dollars to help consumers pay off big medical bills,…
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Some Massachusetts Hospitals Don’t Report Drug-Dependent Newborns
Newborns at risk for lack of medical intervention. Major Massachusetts hospitals no longer regularly perform toxicology tests on newborns or report prenatal exposure to addictive substances to state welfare agencies unless there is other evidence of infant abuse or neglect. Mass General Brigham (MGB) changed hospital policy to address the “racial and ethnic inequities” present…
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California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment
California licensing laws are blocking a patient’s access to care from a medical specialist in another state, leaving her to go without help or make a 14-hour car trip for treatment in person. Shellye Horowitz of Trinidad, California, suffers from a rare bleeding disease affecting women and girls known as hemophilia A. There are no…
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‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act, Another Fiction Unmasked
‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act for seniors unmasked, with fewer innovative drugs and $280 billion siphoned from Medicare. (Commentary) By Ken Blackwell My, how things have changed in the past few weeks. By the time the Republican National Convention convened, the Democrats had hoped to be running President Biden on a platform touting the alleged success…
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Congress Considers Bill to Protect Raw Milk Producers
A bill that would give consumers more choice in the kind of milk they buy is making its way through Congress. The Interstate Milk Freedom Act (H.R. 8374), introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), would prohibit the federal government from interfering with the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products packaged for direct human…
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TikTok Therapists Promote Family Estrangement Therapy to Young People
TikTok therapists promote family estrangement therapy to young people as a step toward happiness, in a social media fad. by Devon Herrick Public health advocates report there is a growing mental health crisis among young people, especially since covid. One outcome of mental health challenges is an emerging therapeutic estrangement fad on social media. I’m…
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Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs Will Impact Presidential Election
Health care affordability has implications for the 2024 presidential election, says Drew Altman, president of KFF. In a recent article, Altman says the most important issue in health care for consumers is out-of-pocket costs. For example, between a quarter and a half of all Americans report real problems paying their medical bills, depending on how…
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‘It’s Going to Be Catastrophic’: Why the Next Pandemic Will Be Worse Than COVID
The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning Americans to prepare for the next pandemic, which he fears will be more catastrophic than COVID-19. From the Daily Signal, July 8, 2024, by Rob Bluey Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist who continues to treat patients suffering from COVID, oversaw the CDC’s…
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Health Care Can Be Fixed with Commonsense Solutions – Commentary
Since most of the restrictions were created by Democratic legislation, it is tempting to view the liberation of health care as a Republican project. Yet there is no reason that it couldn’t be bipartisan. The reforms suggested below are not conservative or liberal, Democratic or Republican. They are commonsense solutions that will appeal to the…
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