Lowering Medicare’s eligibility age would put more financial stress on the entitlement, which is dangerously close to insolvency.
Category: Policy
The Billionaire Who Controls Your Medical Records
Epic Systems founder Judy Faulkner built an empire pioneering—and later dominating—electronic medical records. For decades, she’s kept them walled off from competitors, but now the pandemic is fueling a digital health care race that might finally toppl…
U.K. Watchdog U-Turns On AstraZeneca: Says Under 30s Should Take Alternative Covid-19 Vaccine
Europe’s medicines agency also found a possible link between the vaccine and blood clotting, though repeatedly stressed the vaccine’s benefits outweighed its risks.
End The Lockdowns Now
The extensive use of lockdowns has been unjustified after the initial ones that were put into effect when the pandemic first hit. They have caused unnecessary suffering, physically, psychologically and economically. It’s past time to end them all.
Did Covid-19 Come From A Lab? Most Likely Not, But The Jury’s Still Out
Dr. Mark Kortepeter, a physician and biodefense expert, explains what’s needed to conduct an investigation into the true origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biden Covid Official Warns ‘Game-Changing’ Variant Infects Kids ‘Very Readily’ And Could Spur New Lockdowns
“We really are in a category five hurricane status with regard to the rest of the world,” the infectious disease expert said Sunday.
Malpractice claims from the COVID-19 pandemic: more questions than answers
The pandemic has raised pressing questions around preventive measures, vaccines, and safe treatment, but it has also obscured one key lingering uncertainty for medical professionals: Where are all the medical malpractice claims? A variety of factors cr…
How To Win The Race Against The Coronavirus Variants
Dr. Stephen Thomas, Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Upstate Medical University, discusses what needs to happen to ensure variant strains of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 don’t lead to a fourth surge of cases.
Retrospective refusal of payment based upon final diagnosis compromises patients’ welfare
My patient was very upset. The 34-year-old mother of two young children had come to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain despite her COVID-19 concerns. I had just told her that she had a benign ovarian cyst rather than the life-threatening…
Conservatives Have Healthcare Ideas, Too
An array of conservative activists, lawmakers, and free-market thinkers have been advancing a vision for healthcare policy that would reduce costs and expand consumer choice. Republicans would be wise to start talking about them.
