Category: Policy

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.

The Status Of Coronavirus In Africa & South America: Home To 1.5+ Billion People

Given the significant population of both of these continents, a deeper look into their situations is well-deserved.

How Long Does Covid-19 Coronavirus Last On Different Surfaces?

On the surface, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance about Covid-19 coronavirus hasn’t really changed.

COVID exposed this state’s mangled health care system

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it revealed a troubling paradox in Vermont’s healthscape. Monopoly-creating laws and regulations (like the Affordable Care Act and the Certificate of Need program) have artificially reduced the state’s health facil…