Telemedicine and direct primary care can help patients access affordable, quality care. Taken together, they offer a way out of the costly and confusing status quo—and a vision of what American health care could one day be.
Category: Policy
The realities of immigrant health care served hot from America’s melting pot
By the time I was in elementary school, I was Mom’s right-hand man when it came to interpreting official documents, work emails, or confusing American jokes. Like 20.3 percent of the U.S. population, I grew up in a primarily non-English speaking …
U.S.-China Collaboration Could Cut Development Time, Cost For New Cancer Treatments
The world’s current system for developing cancer drugs is unsustainable, Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist Dr. Bob Li believes.
Healing the damaged nurse-physician dynamic
As anyone in health care knows, a strong nurse-physician dynamic is critical to achieving successful patient outcomes. To provide a quality care experience, it is essential to have a clinical team that knows how to collaborate to achieve that goal. If …
Deaths of despair: an urgent call for a collective response to the crisis in U.S. life expectancy
Some grim news has emerged revealing the sad decline in the health of the United States. America saw its most significant 2-year fall in life expectancy, 2.7 years, in almost 100 years. This has led to U.S. life expectancy being at its lowest since the…
Breaking down the barriers to effective bar-code medication administration
According to the Commonwealth Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the health care system in the United States continues to rank the highest in health spending, has the highest rates of avoidable deaths, and rates…
The locums industry has a beef problem
America, we have a beef problem! The inflation rate is high, and the inflation on beef is even more outrageous. At the time of this article, inflation hovers around 8 to 9 percent, while beef is priced at least 15 to 30 percent more than before COVID-1…
Canada’s health workers are sounding the alarm. We must act, now.
It is no longer hyperbole to say that we are witnessing our health system moving slowly but surely to a point where it will be very difficult to return. Despite the weighty First Ministers’ meeting with the Prime Minister on health care, complete…
Race categorizations are worsening health inequities for the South West Asian North African (SWANA) communities
The Office of Management and Budget is requesting members of the public to provide feedback on a proposal from the Biden Administration to add Middle-Eastern North African (MENA) to the 2030 U.S. Census. If the reforms pass, it would be a major victory…
Report on nurses: Make the profession more visible in media
For an impressive 21st year in a row, Americans rated nursing as the most trusted profession in the country. The 2022 Gallup poll found that 79 percent of adults said nurses have “very high” or “high” honesty and ethical standar…
