Category: Policy

Biden Administration Plans To Begin Providing Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots Sept. 20

The plan is still subject to formal approval from the FDA and CDC, but officials say they’re preparing for the rollout.

White Americans Receive Greater Share Of U.S. Healthcare Dollars, Study Finds

Average healthcare spending for a white patient was $8,141—more than Hispanic, Black, and Asian patients—highlighting issues of structural racism and discrimination.

Gavin Newsom Is Bad For California’s Health

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.

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.