On September 14, the people of California will have the chance to oust Governor Gavin Newsom. His record over his more than two and a half years in power is checkered. Nowhere is that clearer than on health policy.
Category: Policy
America as an outlier: Paying more for less
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United States clearly stands out: we spend far more on health care per capita than any other country in the world, yet life expectancy is shorter than in other develope…
President Biden Urges Congress To Let Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices
While the pharma industry has developed Covid-19 vaccines in record time, a majority of Americans are fed up with the rising cost of prescription drugs and want relief.
Return Of Mask Mandates: Oregon Becomes Latest State To Reimpose Rules
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said masks were needed to combat the infectious delta variant and rising Covid-19 hospitalizations, which are on track to overwhelm the state’s healthcare system in a matter of weeks.
How to start reversing the clinician shortage today
The pandemic may have caused a nationwide labor shortage in the short term. Employees resigning on the spot. Businesses shortening operating hours. Employers offering signing bonuses. However, due to the ongoing urgency and lethality of COVID, very few…
Eradicate the disability tax, before it’s too late
A disability tax is the additional expense people with disabilities pay in society for accommodations that people who are able-bodied do not need, whose impact is often capitalized on top of the inability to perform at the level required by potential e…
United Airlines Mandates Covid Vaccines For All U.S. Employees
The airline is the first major U.S. carrier to mandate the vaccine for all employees, who will be fired if they don’t comply and are not covered by a limited set of exemptions.
United Airlines Mandates Covid Vaccines For All U.S. Employees
The airline is the first major U.S. carrier to mandate the vaccine for all employees, who will be fired if they don’t comply and are not covered by a limited set of exemptions.
How Does Wearing A Mask Protect Me (And Others) Against Covid’s Delta Variant?
The CDC recommended that fully vaccinated people start wearing masks last week after the agency confirmed an increasing number of rare breakthrough cases due to the Delta variant in people who had already received the vaccine.
Who Can Mandate Covid-19 Vaccination?
As the Delta variant complicates return to “normal,” universities, employers and municipal governments take the “soft mandate” route—get vaccinated or face the consequences.
