Category: Policy

CNBC Anchors Andrew Ross Sorkin, Joe Kernen Clash Over Coronavirus Death Toll: ‘100,000 People Died, Joe!’

“All you did was try to help your friend the president,” Sorkin alleged of Kernen.

Half Of U.S. Adults Skipping Healthcare Amid Pandemic

Almost half of U.S. adults say they or someone in their home have “postponed or skipped medical care due to the coronavirus outbreak,” The Kaiser Family Foundation said in a new poll.

Zipline Drones Will Continuously Drop Supplies To Hospital In North Carolina

Granted a waiver to operate due to the coronavirus pandemic, the operation could define how drone delivery works in the U.S. Its usefulness hinges on just how valuable a few pound of air-dropped supplies can be.

SEC Cracks Down On Coronavirus Scams Thanks To An Army Of Whistleblowers

An increasing number of whistleblowers and tipsters are working with the SEC to help identify financial misconduct related to the coronavirus.

Here Are 13 Stocks That Both Hedge Funds And Mutual Funds Are Buying Up

Hedge funds and mutual funds both piled into healthcare stocks, but took opposite positions on energy and financials.

Dow Surges 500 Points As Investors Bet On A Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough

The S&P 500 closed above 3,000 for the first time since early March.

Colorado Gets A Reprieve From The Public Option. All Americans Should Be So Lucky.

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Colorado lawmakers have shelved their plan to overhaul the state’s healthcare system and implement a public health insurance option. But their reprieve may prove temporary. If Biden gets his way, no American will be safe from …

Superb Healthcare At Ultra-Low Prices? How Singapore Does It

How Singapore created the world’s best health-care system at amazingly low costs. We can start to do the same.

Health care workers should not be targets

It has been a week since terrorists broke into the maternity ward in Dashte Barchi, Afghanistan and killed 24, including women, newborns, and a midwife, and injured 16. One woman who had tried for seven years to get pregnant watched as her newborn was …

Top 10 Excuses Offered For Not Wearing Masks Despite Covid-19 Coronavirus

The mask issue has unmasked some kind of political and cultural war, which should surprise basically no one in 2020.