AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform.
Americans for Prosperity and the Progressive Policy Institute, the two groups behind the study, saw the COVID-19 pandemic health response as an opportunity to measure how telehealth impacts health care utilization.
“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10 percent increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So, 40 percent is just unheard of.”
Testing positive has a domino effect on activity because individuals who test positive inform others, who then feel compelled to get tested or stay home. What if the results are wrong?
"If only a small percentage of the American public participate, it would be due to a lack of information as to the benefits. The health care benefits are greater than Medicaid, Medicare, or Obamacare, and all the premiums are tax-deductible."
An exhaustive study that casts doubt on the existence of what is commonly known as “long COVID,” a condition of acute symptoms months after a COVID-19 infection, was published in the Journal...
“Only in Minnesota, could two violent middle school students get a four-day suspension for landing two dozen blows to the head of a defenseless girl laying on the ground while a six-year-old boy in another school is expelled for not wearing a mask."
“Who is Mayo Clinic to evaluate the authenticity of a person’s religious beliefs?” the legislators ask in their letter and state employers are not equipped to make such a judgment in a fair or accurate way that would not be a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“The numbers don’t provide a complete picture if all we know is the number of transplants is up. That’s fine but says nothing of how well potential donors are being used.”
AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform.