Alexander Zaitchik is a freelance journalist living in New Orleans. He is the author, most recently, of Owning the Sun, a history of monopoly medicine.
By hoodwinking seniors into private Medicare Advantage plans, insurers profit by denying care and bankrupting hospitals. Continuing their crusade against Medicare, Dr Oz and the Trump administration plan to make those plans mandatory.
India’s phone scam industry targets the elderly to the tune of billions each year. Its secret weapon? The loss of communal public life and family support.
The Kennedys, the Mob, and the FBI — the Rat Pack’s legendary 1962 residency at the Villa Venice brought the secret power structure of postwar America under one roof.
The media cheered Moderna’s pledge not to enforce the patents on its COVID-19 vaccine. But vaccines like theirs are still protected by intellectual property laws designed to keep medical knowledge out of the public’s hands.