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.
Category: Policy
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…
‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli Plots Post-Jail NYC Return—Seeks Home In ‘Dope Building With Sick Views’
The notorious investor is reemerging from his prison sentence and back on social media.
400 Americans Are Dying Each Day From Covid—Here’s How That Can Become Nearly Zero
Dr. Anand Parekh, chief medical advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center, explains how the tools are there to nearly eliminate Covid deaths—they just need to be deployed.
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a win for health care
Last winter, when the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) was declared “dead” after Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia revealed that he would not support it, health care reform advocates were disappointed. Hopes that important legislation would …
U.S. Cancer Moonshot Needs Stronger Int’l Effort To Make Substantial Progress – Kevin Rudd
“International trials have been key to accelerating the breakthroughs that we’ve seen so far,” Rudd told the Forbes China Healthcare Summit
