The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. That’s a misleading, partisan claim.
Category: Policy
The evolution of lighting vs. cholesterol treatments: a tale of innovation and value
An excerpt from Why Not Better and Cheaper: Healthcare and Innovation by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer with permission from Oxford University Press, © 2023 by Oxford University Press. In a famous essay, Nobel prize-winning economist William …
What an occupational health lens reveals about clinician burnout
Clinician burnout is one of the most tenacious problems facing the contemporary health system. Recent years have seen a plethora of guidance on reducing burnout and improving health care workers’ well-being following the pandemic, but little evid…
On Juneteenth I learned the ugly truth of my new hometown. It restored my faith in humanity.
Most of the racially debated issues these days can be summed up by the terms “critical race theory” and “wokeism” – terms that have become the defining issues of our time even though half the people can’t explain them and …
Navigating the abortion debate: How physicians foster healing and bridge societal divides
Weighing in on abortion invites scorn and derision from all sides. However, physicians should help frame the medical context with the aim of therapeutically healing the gaping societal wounds that the abortion debate has opened. Our Declaration of Inde…
Medical reparations are long overdue in medicine
The Philadelphia Inquirer has been covering health inequities and potential remedial solutions for years. One recent story described how a new policy requires that patients’ kidney function be estimated without taking their race into account, hig…
Philadelphia’s devastating gun violence epidemic: a wake-up call for action
It’s become my morning ritual on the way to the hospital. Cruising down a main Philadelphia stretch, just as the road crests and the hospital becomes visible, I steel myself for the line. Is it going to be long today? In just a few more blocks, m…
The fight for reinstatement: Advocating for early opportunities for excluded health care professionals battling opioid use disorder
I’ll begin by saying that I have a diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD) secondary to PTSD. I began diverting Norco from a pharmacy with which my hospice company had a contract. At the time, I had access to various narcotics as an RN case manage…
Dems’ Drug Price Controls Would Mean Fewer Drugs And Fewer Jobs
Less spending on research almost certainly means fewer drugs would make it through the expensive and time-consuming FDA approval process.
An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, suicides among active-duty troops were frequently reported. Since then, news reports have subsided but the suicides have not. In fact, a 2022 report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office revealed that there we…
