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Illinois Enacts Law to Ease Health Care Worker Shortage
By Glenn Minnis
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed off on a law (H.B. 559) that allows health care workers with temporary...
Medicare is the Key to Fixing the Doctor Shortage – Commentary
By Mario H. Lopez
Today, it can take weeks to see a doctor, and when patients do get in, appointments last about 15 minutes. The...
Washington State Voters Could Nix Long-Term Care Tax
Washington state’s mandatory long-term care (LTC) insurance program, WA Cares, and the payroll tax that funds it will become optional if voters approve a...
New Mexico Bill Would Fund DEI Program to Combat Healthcare Shortage
A New Mexico bill advancing in the House aims to address a major healthcare worker shortage by giving $1.1 million to a university diversity,...
$25 Healthcare Minimum Wage to Cost California $4 Billion in First Year
(The Center Square) – A new California law raising the minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25 per hour will cost the state $4...
States Take Action to Fix Doctor Shortage – Commentary
By Jonathan Wolfson
Think the federal government’s plan to add extra residency slots for health professional shortage areas will alleviate the growing rural physician shortage?...
Whole Foods Founder Launches ‘Cash-Only’ Health Care Company
John Mackey, well-known as the founder of Whole Foods, has launched a new health care company called Love.Life.
In July 2023, Mackey sent out a...
Health Care Fairness for All Act –Affordable Coverage Without Compromising Care – Commentary
By Dean Clancy
Forty percent of voters say the high and rising cost of health care represents a “crisis,” according to a recent poll. A...
States CAN Tackle the Dental Workforce Shortage – Commentary
By Jeff A. Singer and Joel Strom
A recent news report quoted a New Jersey Dental Association spokesman who warned, “Your routine dental treatment could...
Medicaid, Obamacare Subsidies Blamed for Labor Shortage–Study
“The expansion of food stamps, health insurance subsidies, and unemployment benefits, along with the relaxation or elimination of [Medicaid] work requirements, kept millions of people from returning to the workforce in 2020 and 2021,” wrote Mulligan and Antoni. “For these families, work may literally not pay.”
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Assembly-Line Medicine Weakens Doctor-Patient Relationships, Patients’ Health – Interview
Editor’s Note: On July 31, JAMA Network published the results of a survey that found patients’ trust in doctors and hospitals dropped 31 percentage...
Yes, Vote, but Resist the Political Illusion with Elections- Commentary
By John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine
Though all elections have consequences—some more than others—they are moments in time. As such, they reflect more than they...
Guidebook Helps Seniors Avoid Costly Mistakes During Medicare Enrollment
Medicare’s annual enrollment period has begun and to help seniors make decisions they will not regret, the non-profit policy organization, the Citizens' Council for...
