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An Upside Down Future for Healthcare

The Health Care Blog

Two articles recently provided some good insights into how to think about the future: Kevin Kelly’s How to Future and an except from Jane McGonigal’s new book Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything? How do we regulated it? What would we do if X was true? How do we manage it?

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The Polluter Pays Principle: handle with care

Sheffield DPH

In my experience that strongly tends to reinforce existing power dynamics and policy systems. Currently that isn’t in the interests of public health IMO in many areas. If we had settled for pragmatism in say smoking we may still have voluntary self reg on smoking in public places. Adverse consequences.

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Readers Offer Solo Agers Support and Reflect on Ancestors

KFF Health News

I live in Los Angeles with famously poor public transportation. 2), more Americans are living on their own as they age, relying on a patchwork of health care services to get by. 2), more Americans are living on their own as they age, relying on a patchwork of health care services to get by. So, I have prepared food delivered.

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Immigration Detention Center Contractor Sues Over California Health Inspections

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GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

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What To Know About RFK Jr.’s Stances on Key Health Issues and What He Could Do at HHS

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas.

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Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is allowed to ‘go wild’

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team.

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Proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. By the time she arrived, she said, “My brother was swollen up from hands to toes.” “Employee suffers from heat exhaustion while doing landscaping,” said an investigation into the incident from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.