Thursday, March 7, 2019

Another Missing Link Discovered: 1969 IRS Rule Change Allowed US Hospitals to Discriminate Among Patients Based on Ability to Pay

Prelude: the Suits in the Elevator

Another long night on call of my interniship was over. Having managed to wolf down breakfast and brush my teeth, disheveled and in unwashed scrubs I stumbled into the elevator on my way to the wards. In it were some of well-groomed people in nice suits. They looked at me with wrinkled noses, oozing disdain. I wondered who they were: pharmaceutical

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Making the Revolving Door Great Again: Recent FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb Joins the Pfizer Board of Directors

It has been less than six weeks since our last post on the revolving door. That post emphasized cases of the outgoing revolving door, that ...