Health orders accused of being light on patient safety

FOCUS – Five of the seven professional health orders are concerned. The Court of Auditors addresses four major criticisms to them. The Order of Physicians had already been crushed by the Court of Auditors in December 2019, in a damning report on its ethical practices. This time, five of the seven professional health orders (dentists, … Read more

a good part of the stimulus checks will land on the stock market

The Biden administration will inject $ 2,000 billion into the US economy. The stimulus plan deployed by the Biden administration will flood the US economy with nearly $ 2 trillion in new money, a significant portion of which will be injected into the stock market, or even used to buy bitcoin, if the several bank … Read more

Portugal’s GDP drops 7.6% in 2020 due to virus

The country has been particularly affected by the decline in tourism, on which it is very dependent. Portugal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell 7.6% in 2020 after rising 2.2% the previous year, due to the coronavirus epidemic, according to a first estimate released Tuesday by the Institute national statistics. This decline is however less pronounced … Read more

the hefty bill for tests and work stoppages

The total amount of expenditure for Covid screenings in medical biology laboratories would amount to 1.8 billion euros in 2020. Unsurprisingly, Medicare spending exploded in 2020, with an increase of 6.5%, split between city care (+ 3.6%), medical establishments (+ 9%) and establishments medico-social (+ 10.2%). Within city care, the reimbursement structure has been profoundly … Read more

Seoul is slow to respect its agreement with Europe

The Republic of Korea is not respecting “its obligations in terms of trade and sustainable development under its trade agreement with the EU,” the European Commission said in a statement. While the political agreement signed at the end of December for a future treaty on investments between the European Union and China sparks controversy over … Read more