Health care
America’s Broken Health Care System Is the Biggest Obstacle to Containing the Coronavirus
Over the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that the US health care system is uniquely ill-equipped to deal with a crisis...
Captured Western Governments Are Failing the Coronavirus Test
In deciding on possible countermeasures, residents of Western democracies often hear only two opposite perspectives: Is the priority to minimize the loss of human...
The Fight Against Coronavirus: What the US Can Learn from Italian Hospitals on How to Prevent a Disaster
In a Facebook post that has since become viral, Italian doctor Daniele Macchini offered a first-hand testimony from the Lombardy region, the epicenter of...
Governments and Central Banks Have a Few Unpleasant Options to Stop the Economic Contagion
The global economy and financial markets are seriously hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Central banks can do something, but monetary policy is not enough. A fiscal stimulus might mitigate the impact, but the record-level outstanding amount of public and private debt adds additional risk to the current perfect storm. Â
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Coronavirus Special Issue
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.Â
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The Amazon of Health Care: How CVS Is Evolving From a Drug Store Chain into a Tech Platform
CVS is built on a dominant chain of drug stores, but it is now trying to turn itself into a "uniquely powerful platform" for...
The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free
The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
The Rise of the Opioids: How Purdue Invented New Markets for OxyContin
Purdue's strategy was to market its opioids directly to patients via brochures, videos, advertisements, and the internet. It also provided information to doctors and...
"You Can Put the Monopoly Tiger in a Cage but You Cannot Transform a Tiger Into a Vegan"
In an extensive interview with the Swiss news website TheMarket.ch, Luigi Zingales discusses ways to deal with Big Tech and the impact of the...
OxyContin's Academic Marketing: The Studies That Fueled the Opioid Crisis
Purdue Pharmaceuticals used to cite three major studies to argue that in prescribing OxyContin, addiction-risk was not significant. The most influential of those studies...
