Category: Policy

Moderna Stock Falls Despite Vaccine Sales More Than Tripling From Last Year

Shares moved lower despite strong earnings results from the vaccine-maker.

Roe v. Wade: questions that need to be addressed in the near future

On May 2, 2022, news broke that Roe v. Wade would be overturned according to an initial draft majority opinion released by Politico. In the political economy that we find ourselves in, this news has had the immediate consequence of furthering divisions…

Protecting Black women’s maternal health is urgent

In a world of extremes where we are operating in black and white, living in the gray is where the real work happens of confronting truths of left and right, conservative and liberal, and opening up to varying perspectives that reflect diversity. This i…

The Strange Return Of Ivermectin And Hydroxychloroquine: Republicans Push Drug In State Bills

Republican legislators in Ohio, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Kansas and elsewhere want to expand access to disproven Covid-19 treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

A voice from the lower decks of health care

“It feels different down here,” she said. I had just approached a young woman in our ED waiting room to apologize for the seven-hour wait to be seen. She looked at me with bloodshot, dark brown eyes and continued, “It feels like … the…

When quality measures interfere with good care

All medical professionals are familiar with the jargon: quality metrics, P4P, low-cost/high-value care, PQRS, and meaningful use. We see these terms in multiple emails, staff and clinical meetings, and organization-wide initiatives. These measures and …

The health care systems in the United States and Canada are failing

There are no two ways about it: The health care system in the United States and Canada is failing. Few want to talk about a dirty little secret, but the facts are clear. Health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate, and millions of Americans a…

The health care systems in the United States and Canada are failing

There are no two ways about it: The health care system in the United States and Canada is failing. Few want to talk about a dirty little secret, but the facts are clear. Health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate, and millions of Americans a…

Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care

Americans living in non-expansion states should consider themselves lucky. Expanding Medicaid would only expand the entitlement’s inefficiencies and poor health outcomes.

Anti-Covid Pill Coming To All U.S. Pharmacies Under Reported Biden Plan

Though Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral pill can reduce risk of hospitalization or death by 89%, it hasn’t been widely used.