An excerpt from A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks. The United States has the world’s most expensive health care system. It spends about twice as much each year on every American as the Canadian system spends on Canadians. Per capita, the U…
Category: Policy
Abortion Access Influences Location Decisions For One In Five U.S. Manufacturing CEOs, According To Forbes-Zogby Poll
Two of Indiana’s biggest employers said last month that they’d think twice about expanding facilities in the state after the legislature passed a near-total ban on abortion. A new poll shows that, nationwide, the companies are hardly unique.
Don’t let vindictiveness creep into medicine like it has in politics
The callous and inhumane dislocation of migrants recently perpetrated by governors of the states of Florida and Texas reminded me of an equally disdainful and appalling tactic utilized by health care workers since the 1960s: “Greyhound therapy.&#…
The Inflation Reduction Act: Can it build back medicine better and reduce climate change?
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is an ambitious piece of legislation that was signed into law on August 16 of this year. This was a revised, negotiated version of the Build Back Better Plan that failed to pass in December 2021. Like many pi…
Medicare Advantage Is A Diamond In The Government Healthcare Rough
The value of Medicare Advantage far outweighs its costs. To make our healthcare system more equitable and affordable, we must bolster the program — not erode it.
Improving access to care in rural America: Keeping rural hospitals in the game
Almost 20 percent of America’s population lives in rural areas of the country, where accessing health care facilities and services can be challenging. The patient-to-primary care physician ratio in rural areas is only 39.8 physicians per 100,000 …
Bulletproof backpacks: There’s more we can do
As a parent of elementary school children, every mass shooting, particularly ones killing school children like in Uvalde, jolts my doing-the-mom-thing-just-keep-busy-can’t-stop denial. On the last day of school before summer vacation, when the bu…
“Based More On Emotion Than Science”: Steve Forbes Blasts FDA Vaping Rule
The deadly, nonstop antivaping war being waged by the FDA is based more on emotion than science.
Is Crowdfunding The Future Of Lowering Health Care Costs?
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a report touting the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 8% with only 26.4 million Americans still lacking coverage.
Why health care will never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic
The health care industry will never be the same again following the COVID-19 pandemic. We can’t risk dying from a virus that had already killed so many people and disintegrated fruitful lives the world over. We need to use new protocols, technolo…
