I began my career in health care more than 30 years ago working at a hospital. For as long as I can remember there has been a nursing shortage. The reasons given for this are many, most of which are wrong. When I was a budget analyst, a senior vice president (SVP) told us nurses are caring people. He added nurses make great mothers and often quit to raise their kids. He explained that the staffing shortage was exacerbating the staffing shortage by increasing the stress levels of nurses on staff.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Friday Links
- “mRNA vaccines reached production despite the system, rather than because of it.”
- Fake health news on TikTok.
- To speed up drug approvals, recognize reliable approvals in other countries.
- Timothy Taylor: Update on the opioid epidemic.
- The National Portrait Gallery, which contains memorable drawings of great Americans throughout our nation’s history, is displaying a picture of Fauci????
Thursday Links
- To deal with misleading ads in the Medicare Advantage open enrollment period, CMS has tried every possible remedy except the obvious one: let doctors advise their own patients about the choices.
- Inequality in life expectancy: “the least-educated Americans have seen their death rates surge in a way that more-educated Americans have not.
- A Trump executive order requires giving consumers full pricing information for medications. It looks like the courts are going to force the Biden administration to enforce that rule.
- Covid vaccine mandates are back – in red state Texas!
- Food stamp spending has doubled in the last four years.
- David Friedman wonders if he can escape death.
Wednesday Links
- France to offer health insurance for pets. Pet rats may be included.
- Winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.
- NYC becomes first in the nation to make abortion care available via telehealth.
- Casey Mulligan: The Biden administration’s first two years of rulemaking created more than $1 trillion in regulatory costs or about $10,000 per household.