Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

COVID-19 88

COVID-19 Single Payer Health Care Health Insurance Public Health 88

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

Single Payer Health Care 52

Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 52

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. ” This week in The Lancet , the editors assert, “The founding principles of the NHS put into practice 75 years ago are at risk of being compromised.”

Nurses 62

Nurses Doctors Single Payer Health Care Public Health 62

Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S. The result of this ask is the report, Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System, published on 1st May by the CBO.

Single Payer Health Care 52

Single Payer Health Care Medicare Medicare Governance 52

Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

UC San Diego Health pays $2.98M settlement over claims of unnecessary genetic testing. UCSF Health names new CEO. Newsom backs away from single-payer health care pledge. Some ER patients waiting days for hospital beds in California. COVID surge, nurse burnout make mess out of hospital staffing.

COVID-19 40

COVID-19 Nursing Homes COVID-19 Vaccine Nurses 40

Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

Despite Burnout, These California Health Care Workers Aren’t Quitting. Single-payer health care clears big hurdle in California. . ‘Simply not enough’: Officials respond to percentage of eligible CA nursing home staff boosted. Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in California.

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses 40

Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Newsom has earned the moniker of “health care governor” by catapulting the issue to the top of his policy priorities. He made California an abortion sanctuary and is dramatically expanding health care benefits. And now Newsom boasts about bringing the state’s uninsured rate to an all-time low of 6.5%

COVID-19 Vaccine 107

COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 107