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The True Cost of Preventative Healthcare, Efficiency, and the Profit Motive

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

Health care is expensive. It is unnecessarily expensive in this country due to the sheer amount of private insurance middlemen, and the pressures of the profit motive, as said motive…

On Recovery and Long-Haul Covid

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

I will be stepping away from the larger issues this week to talk about my own experiences as I attempt to rebuild my health, and about my struggles with long…

On Corporate Influence and the CDC

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

In the study of economics, the term “rational actor” and rational choice theory both rely on the idea of an individual making an informed cost-benefit analysis based on objective, material…

On Privatized Medical Care, Capitalism and Medical Integrity, and Patient Outcomes

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

I have had the privilege (or misfortune, I suppose) of receiving medical care both in and out of the United States. When I was fifteen years old, my left index…

On Privatized Medical Care and the Expenses of Illness and Poverty

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

When I got Covid, I was making decent money doing regional craft beer sales and running a mixed fermentation barrel program. I paid off all consumer debt (not that I…

On Living Near Kevin McCarthy’s House

By seanvansickel May 24, 2022Uncategorized

I live near Kevin McCarthy’s house. Not the place where he actually lives—that would be the 7,000+ square foot penthouse in DC—but his legal residence in Kern County. I assume…

The Passage/The Twelve/City of Mirrors

By seanvansickel November 15, 2016Uncategorized

So… I read a post-apocalyptic trilogy. It’s got vampires in it, or at least an entity similar enough to warrant the nomenclature. I have no regrets. It was fucking fantastic,…

Consider the Lobster. Please Start Here.

By seanvansickel October 27, 2016Reading Journal, Uncategorized

The essays in Consider the Lobster span around thirteen years, and offer thought on the adult film industry celebrating itself, the 2000 primary campaign of John McCain, the sad decline…

Flooded Anthology Kickstarter

By seanvansickel October 13, 2016Uncategorized

http://kck.st/2dGtO32 Flooded is an awesome anthology project that will feature fiction and creative nonfiction related to brain injuries, and it's currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. I don't promote these kind…

New Publication at BODY PARTS MAGAZINE: THE JOURNAL OF HORROR & EROTICA

By seanvansickel May 27, 2016Uncategorized3 Comments

Got another story published! Hop on over to the digital edition of Body Parts to read my story "Murder and Cruelty Free" and please don't assume anything negative about my…