Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
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This post is about an article i was reading, Job-Based Health Insurance: Sick and Getting Sicker, from Dollars & Sense. The article discusses the recent trends of job-based health insurance and the horrible effects.
In the past having a stable job meant that medical bills was something you never had to think about. Most companies took [...]
I have just read, Dean Baker: How to End Corruption in the Drug Industry by Yves Smith, an article from Naked Capitalism. The article raises many of the big issues within the Pharma market, particularly within research. It then suggest some solutions that arguably can fix this corruption. Overall, the problems it sites are rather [...]
In class we have spoken about many different financialized markets, most of who have some aspect of unproductive labor driving up their profits. The article, Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary in the New York Times explains this aspect within the pharmaceutical market.
The article exposes the intimate ties between the large pharmaceutical companies, like Merck [...]
I am reading an interesting article from CounterPunch newsletter on the America history of restoring a crisis.
In this article, the author explains how our economic system manages to remain afloat even when it seems like there are more “assets” (debt) for the government to buy up than there are actual profits turning. She explains that [...]
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