Mike Koriwchak, Recent Harris Poll research revealed that two-thirds of consumers describe every step of acquiring health care as difficult. Half of respondents even avoid care because of this complicated bureaucracy, likely making their ailments worse and costlier …
Read moreThe White House Is Listening to Practicing Doctors on Health Care
Anthony Hopp, One would think, in these days of COVID-19, that America’s doctors and patients are as reliant on our hospitals as they’ve ever been. And that they’re going to stay that way. Guess again. Today, …
Read moreWhy Patients and Care Providers Are Moving Away from Major Hospital Systems
Sally C. Pipes, The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has prompted the biggest spending spree in American history. The House of Representatives just passed an additional relief package worth $3 trillion. That’s on top …
Read moreCoronavirus Stimulus Would Barely Cover Medicare for All
M.D. Kittle, MADISON — A northern Illinois man with fast-growing leg and abdominal aneurysms was forced to cancel his scheduled surgery. His doctor told him the operation, although very necessary, was a “nonessential” procedure in …
Read moreDelayed Medicine: ‘Are These Lives Less Important?’
President Donald Trump told Americans to brace for a big spike in coronavirus fatalities in the coming days, as the country faces what he called the toughest two weeks of the pandemic. “There’s going to …
Read moreTrump: ‘Going to be a lot of death’ in U.S. next week from coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has thrown 10 million Americans out of work in just two weeks, the swiftest, most stunning collapse the U.S. job market has ever witnessed, and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not …
Read moreEconomic fallout mounts, worldwide cases top 1 million
The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China passed 490 on Wednesday, as two U.S. airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong following the first fatality there and 10 cases were confirmed on a quarantined …
Read moreChina virus toll nears 500, airlines cut Hong Kong flights, cases found on cruise ship