Scott Yost reports that the city is going to be providing financing for development of marginal commercial properties in partnership with several commercial banks. This is yet another sell-out to development interests. The money to be loaned by the city will be amounts the private markets are not willing to […]
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Juxtapose Hospital Executive Salaries Vs. Physician Circumstances
News and Record: Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, the now-retired top executive of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, received a 45.6% increase in total compensation for fiscal 2024, raising her pay to $7.63 million, according to the nonprofit’s federal tax filing… Advocate Health, parent company of Atrium Health and Baptist, provided […]
The Most Recent GOP Amnesty Bill
Focus On The Hospital Systems, All Of A Sudden
NC Political Tea has an article that discusses nonprofit hospital systems behaving like large for-profit corporations. This is a theme we have discussed at this blog occasionally. She links to an article at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal that suggests politicians from both parties are concerned. Indeed, they should be, […]
Lobbying By The Health Insurance Industry
Chip Roy via Breitbart: Now, it may surprise people to know the healthcare industry spends almost three-quarters of a billion dollars on lobbying Washington every year. That’s six times more than the defense industry. Why? Because they want that free money…. That is a great illustration of why we have […]
The Raleigh Republicans’ Assist To Corporate Employers of Physicians
The General Assembly passed a bill— HB 67– that does several things. The bill runs 48 pages. Senate candidate Don Brown recently discussed it on OAN. He focused on the part of the bill that opens the floodgates for many more foreign-trained physicians to be employed by hospital systems in […]
Major Pediatric Organization: “Medical Fascism”
Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that requests for religious exemptions to vaccines no longer be honored. Pediatricians gain financially from the administration of vaccines– sometimes handsomely. David Bell, Brownstone Institute: The AAP will almost certainly continue its path of child polypharmacy, blind adherence to protocols based on […]
Another Trump Unforced Mistake
The big vision? To share our health data electronically with big tech companies. That includes medical records, data from “wearables”, etc. The idea is that this sharing of data will somehow result in health improvement. It appears there are some major political donors likely pushing for this. It is yet […]
Great Presentation On Trump’s “Fascism”
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Couch/ Summerfield Gets Greensboro Approval
This is an important first step in the city of Greensboro’s process. David Couch had the first phase of his project approved last night with the Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commission. The handwriting on the wall has been visible for some time. There was little doubt that Greensboro would approve. […]