Category: West Virginia’s Wildcat Teachers Strike

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Minding Our Health: The Nudge, Part Two

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. The topic of the hearing was reducing healthcare expenditures on chronic illness, which they claimed would amount of hundreds of billions of dollars in “savings.” Given the amount of money on the table, … Continue reading Minding Our Health: The Nudge, Part Two

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Biocapitalism and the West Virginia Wildcat Teachers Strike

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West Virginia’s Teachers became guinea pigs in a state sanctioned experiment to lower the cost of healthcare by directly linking teachers’ implied unhealthy choices – measured through steps, blood glucose, and waist size –  to the rising cost of healthcare. One … Continue reading Biocapitalism and the West Virginia Wildcat Teachers Strike