On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technolog…
Category: Policy
Nurses are in need of racial healing
In a recent survey of nurses (n=5,600), 63% of respondents reported having experienced racism in the workplace. These racist acts were mainly done by peers (66%) or a manager or supervisor (60%). Such widespread racism should send shockwaves throughout…
Are we opening everything too quickly?
In “Open Everything” published in The Atlantic on February 9th, 2022, Yascha Mounk discusses his arguments for lifting any remaining COVID-19 restrictions to “shake off the pandemic malaise.” He asserts that we are “in dan…
How inflation fueled health care costs
The 3-hour concert was over. On the way back to the car, the excitement of it all kept us singing the lyrical masterpiece. I turned on the ignition and typed in our address. “You have 1 hour and 35 minutes to go,” the GPS alerted me. I glan…
Better health care for less, version 2.0
An excerpt from Modern Healthcare Delivery, Deliverance or Debacle: A Glimpse From the Inside Out. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein In…
Shedding Mask Mandates: A Step Towards Life After Covid-19?
Public health law experts Lawrence Gostin, Alexandra Finch and Sarah Wetter discuss how close we are to the end of the pandemic—and what health policies might be needed as Covid-19 becomes endemic.
California Single-Payer Has Gone Up In Flames—For Now. Will Progressives Escape The Firestorm?
Government-run health care is disastrous for patients, doctors, taxpayers—and now lawmakers. California’s progressives say they are not giving up—and that single-payer will be back. But perhaps California’s single-payer firestorm will finally wake prog…
Is The Pandemic Phase Of Covid Over? Americans Are Ready For Normalcy
It’s high time we terminate pandemic mandates and restrictions and let people live normal lives again.
Solving the low-acuity emergency department problem
Before I worked as a medical scribe, I didn’t realize how many mildly ill people visited the emergency department (ED). In my first few weeks, though, I learned that patients with minor complaints, such as sprains, cavities, rashes, and common co…
How strong policies can improve guardianship
Millions of Americans each week watch as fictional television matriarch Rebecca Pearson, in the NBC-TV series, “This Is Us,” struggles with frustrations of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and fear of an unknown health future. In the c…
