Commentary
Commentary
Differentiating Health Care Costs from Health Care Value
The wrong model, no matter how hard you work it, will never provide the right answer. When it comes to how we pay for health care, the U.S. is using the wrong model. What’s worse, these financing inadequacies could threaten the viability of new therapies that will bring hope to ...
Commentary
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
California
The Perils of Regulating Drugs by Sound Bite
There is a legal adage that “hard cases make bad law.” California may soon rediscover this wisdom. Assembly member Jim Wood has introduced a bill (AB 824) with the intention of discouraging “pay-for-delay” tactics. “Pay-for-delay” practices refer to a situation when a manufacturer of a patented drug pays the manufacturer ...
Commentary
Bernie Sanders is no magician when it comes to health care
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is a magician. Almost single-handedly, he has moved “Medicare-for-all” – his plan to provide free, government-run health care to every American – from the political fringe to the center of Democratic Party politics. Fourteen senators – including rival presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Kirsten Gillibrand ...
Agriculture
Are You Getting Anti-Vaccine Information From Russian Propagandists?
The spike in the number of measles cases in the United States is finally garnering the attention it deserves, as the number of new illnesses continues to accelerate. The number of cases in the United States now stands at more than 750, the highest number recorded in a year since the ...
Commentary
So-called ‘Medicare for All’ gets its 15 minutes of infamy
Last week, the House Rules Committee held a landmark hearing on “Medicare for all.” The idea’s advocates championed the hearing as a major step towards providing Americans universal, government-run healthcare. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office delivered an analysis that detailed just how destructive single-payer healthcare would be. The ...
Commentary
Yes, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, The VA Is Badly Broken
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently offered a vigorous defense of the Veterans Health Administration, arguing that its problems were a “myth” peddled by Republicans who want to privatize the system. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” she said. One of her fellow Democrats would beg to differ. And he has a relevant ...
Charter Schools
SoCal NAACP Chapters Break with Unions Because Charter Schools Work
While a powerful front of liberal lawmakers and groups push for a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools in California, individual chapters of the NAACP have broken ranks to support charters that are improving the education for thousands of African-American children. To end teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, local school ...
Agriculture
A Scientist’s Week at the Vatican
Ten years ago this month, I had the experience of a lifetime. I was one of a small group of scholars from around the world who were convened by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences for a “study week.” Our subject was “Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context ...
Commentary
Hair care’s lessons for health care
The other day, I found myself in a predicament. I was having a bit of a bad hair day. So I went to a Drybar, the chain of quick-service salons, and poof! An hour and $49 later, I was ready for the catwalk. Consider the simple chain of events that transpired. Within ...
Differentiating Health Care Costs from Health Care Value
The wrong model, no matter how hard you work it, will never provide the right answer. When it comes to how we pay for health care, the U.S. is using the wrong model. What’s worse, these financing inadequacies could threaten the viability of new therapies that will bring hope to ...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
The Perils of Regulating Drugs by Sound Bite
There is a legal adage that “hard cases make bad law.” California may soon rediscover this wisdom. Assembly member Jim Wood has introduced a bill (AB 824) with the intention of discouraging “pay-for-delay” tactics. “Pay-for-delay” practices refer to a situation when a manufacturer of a patented drug pays the manufacturer ...
Bernie Sanders is no magician when it comes to health care
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is a magician. Almost single-handedly, he has moved “Medicare-for-all” – his plan to provide free, government-run health care to every American – from the political fringe to the center of Democratic Party politics. Fourteen senators – including rival presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Kirsten Gillibrand ...
Are You Getting Anti-Vaccine Information From Russian Propagandists?
The spike in the number of measles cases in the United States is finally garnering the attention it deserves, as the number of new illnesses continues to accelerate. The number of cases in the United States now stands at more than 750, the highest number recorded in a year since the ...
So-called ‘Medicare for All’ gets its 15 minutes of infamy
Last week, the House Rules Committee held a landmark hearing on “Medicare for all.” The idea’s advocates championed the hearing as a major step towards providing Americans universal, government-run healthcare. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office delivered an analysis that detailed just how destructive single-payer healthcare would be. The ...
Yes, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, The VA Is Badly Broken
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently offered a vigorous defense of the Veterans Health Administration, arguing that its problems were a “myth” peddled by Republicans who want to privatize the system. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” she said. One of her fellow Democrats would beg to differ. And he has a relevant ...
SoCal NAACP Chapters Break with Unions Because Charter Schools Work
While a powerful front of liberal lawmakers and groups push for a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools in California, individual chapters of the NAACP have broken ranks to support charters that are improving the education for thousands of African-American children. To end teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, local school ...
A Scientist’s Week at the Vatican
Ten years ago this month, I had the experience of a lifetime. I was one of a small group of scholars from around the world who were convened by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences for a “study week.” Our subject was “Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context ...
Hair care’s lessons for health care
The other day, I found myself in a predicament. I was having a bit of a bad hair day. So I went to a Drybar, the chain of quick-service salons, and poof! An hour and $49 later, I was ready for the catwalk. Consider the simple chain of events that transpired. Within ...
