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…
Category: Policy
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…
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…
Why and how to get a second opinion [PODCAST]
“In the end, the patient-physician relationship is crucial to overall decision-making for any plan of care, treatment, or surgery. There are many variations in the reviewed studies in health care literature as to the cost-effectiveness of second …
Economic Toll Of Opioid Epidemic: $1.3 Trillion A Year
A new report warns more than 1.2 million people could die from overdoses in the U.S. and Canada by 2029 if no action is taken.
Why the health care industry must prioritize health equity
There are few silver linings related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but one that stands out is the growing recognition that health equity must be an essential guiding principle for health care organizations going forward. The broader health care system suff…
