Did you know that health care workers are complaining to the federal government that they’re suffering from discrimination by employers for declining to give care that violates their religious beliefs? I didn’t either. What’s more, in 30 years of providing health care, I’ve never heard of an employee who felt their religious freedoms were being […]
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20 December 2017
CDC’s banned-word list shows Trump’s contempt for science
Just when I think the Trump administration can no longer surprise me, they go and do it. But the latest stunt is more a shock than a surprise. Senior budget officials of the esteemed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were called to a meeting last Thursday and read a list of forbidden words and […]
8 December 2017
Ending individual mandate raises questions of morality
As Congress debates getting rid of the individual mandate to buy health insurance to better afford a tax overhaul, I’m reminded of one of the mandate’s leading advocates — Uwe (pronounced OOH-vuh) Reinhardt, one of the greatest minds in health care economics. In 2009, as Congress was debating the Affordable Care Act (signed into law […]
1 October 2017
Health partnership responds when parents react to fewer RNs in schools
Since the Gallup Poll began ranking “most trusted professions” in 1999, nurses have placed No. 1 every year with the exception of 2001, when firefighters took the spot after 9/11. People have depended on and trusted nurses through life’s most intimate moments: birth and dying and times in between of injury and sickness. And parents […]
23 July 2017
In America, pursuing health care reform is like Sisyphus pushing the stone
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to ceaselessly roll a giant stone to the summit, only for it to roll back down of its own weight. In trying to fix health care, we Americans are like Sisyphus. Bearing witness to the strenuous futility is exhausting. First, let’s take a look back to see how our health care […]
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