In what looks like a routine briefing, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is due to discuss the Veterans Educational Assistance Act in a press conference beginning at 5 p.m. ET.
However, in light of the fact that it's been a rough day for the Trump administration, reporters are probably brimming with questions about the ongoing controversy about Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville Va. this weekend.
N. Korea Has A Better And More Equitable Health Care System Than The US
Read Professor Michel Chossudovsky’s report on the World Health Organization’s latest finding:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-their-health-system-sucks-do-they-have-schools-and-hospitals-in-america-weve-got-medicare/5604293
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For a couple of years now we've highlighted various data points suggesting that Obamacare was, and continues to be, in an inescapable death spiral that will end in a spectacular collapse of healthcare exchanges around the country. While there are a number of reasons that Obamacare was doomed from the start, it basically all boils down to the original failed logic that millions of young, healthy Americans would gladly pay out the nose for a product they didn't want and knew they would never use all to fulfill a civic obligation to subsidize the healthcare costs of their older and/or less fo
Authored by Gilbert Berdine via The Mises Institute,
Enter “outrageous drug prices” into Google and you will receive plenty of examples. As reported here, Marathon Pharmaceuticals planned to charge $89,000 per year for its Emflaza brand of the corticosteroid deflazacort. Deflazacort was introduced in 1969 and is available outside the U.S. for less than $2 per tablet. US patients with muscular dystrophy have been obtaining the drug for around $1,500 per year from foreign sources.
The opioid epidemic isn’t the only public-health crisis plaguing the US.
Americans are hitting the bottle harder than ever, according to a new study published by JAMA Psychiatry, posing new challenges for the US’s strained health-care system as local hospitals and first responders struggle with the spike in substance-abuse related maladies, including overdoses and alcohol poisoning that warrant urgent care.