Months of work have come together just at the right time with the release today of a letter, signed by 68 thinkers and leaders in health reform, showing support for the Consensus Group’s updated Health Care Choices plan. The Daily Signal published the letter today, What’s Needed for Health Care Reform: Personalized Care That Puts You and Your Doctor in Charge. With explicit … [Read more...] about Yes, we have a plan!—Consensus Group letter on health reform
New York City, A COVID Calamity
Another lesson from COVID-19: Data and politics can be a dangerous brew. Take, for example, the political narrative that New York tamed the beast and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a model of leadership—including praise that New York “got it right” and did a “laudable job ”in managing the spread of the virus. And then there are the facts, detailed in a new paper by Doug … [Read more...] about New York City, A COVID Calamity
Covid Politics
It is very difficult to ask the country to put politics aside during a presidential election season, but it is crucial that we do so now regarding the expected approval of vaccines for Covid-19. Pharmaceutical researchers are laboring for thousands of hours and investing billions of dollars to develop treatments and vaccines desperately needed to save lives and unlock economies around the … [Read more...] about Covid Politics
Outrage over CDC Obsolescence
With thousands of lives and trillions of dollars at stake and economies reeling from the global pandemic, the U.S. government agency most responsible for decisions to guide the response has been using faxes and phones to collect vital data from front-line workers, then entering the information manually—leading to delays and mistakes. This is inexcusable and intolerable, veteran health policy … [Read more...] about Outrage over CDC Obsolescence
Health care and the elections
The health reform debate has taken a new focus during the coronavirus crisis, with a greater emphasis on innovation to produce treatments and vaccines, different options for accessing care, and the great harm done when people aren’t able to get needed surgeries, cancer care, and other non-COVID treatments. Health care, including COVID, is poised once again to be the key issue in … [Read more...] about Health care and the elections