Duckworth renews push to protect IVF services for service members
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has renewed her push to ensure service members and their families can access fertility services like in vitro fertilization.
How Can the U.S. Achieve Universal Coverage? With a Two-Part Plan, Expert Says
What’s the best way to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has health insurance and access to care? Amy Finkelstein, PhD, who has studied health economics for 20 years, is pretty sure she finally knows the answer. After her father-in-law challenged her to tell him what was needed to fix the healthcare system, Finkelstein, at […]
Opinion | The Healthcare System Didn’t Plan Poorly for Disaster
I was, for a while, a lecturer/consultant for the “Domestic Preparedness Program.” This was an initiative by the Department of Justice to ensure that first responders around the U.S. were prepared to deal with the medical consequences of nuclear, biological, chemical, and blast injuries. This was before the terrible events of 9/11. Our job as […]