Why Even Public Health Experts Have Limited Insight Into Stopping Gun Violence in America
After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on research into firearms risks, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or political support, to document the nation鈥檚 growing gun violence problem and start to understand what can be done to curb the public health crisis.
Centene, Under Siege in America, Moved Into Britain鈥檚 National Health Service
A nine-minute public hearing gave the U.S. insurance giant a foothold in Britain鈥檚 prized National Health Service. One doctor called it 鈥減rivatization of NHS by stealth.鈥 And critics worry that business efficiencies will degrade the quality of care.
Britain鈥檚 Hard Lessons From Handing Elder Care Over to Private Equity
Four Seasons Health Care collapsed after years of private equity investors rolling in one after another to buy its business, sell its real estate, and at times wrest multimillion-dollar profits from it through complex debt schemes. The deal-making failed to account for the true cost of senior care.
What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those 鈥楩ree鈥 Covid Tests? The Government Won鈥檛 Say.
Inquiries lead from one federal office to the next, with no clear answers. At one Army Contracting Command, a protocol office employee says that 鈥渧oicemail has been down for months.鈥 And the email address listed for fielding media inquiries? 鈥淭he army stopped using the email address about eight years ago.鈥
Nurses in Crisis Over Covid Dig In for Better Work Conditions
In tough labor negotiations across the nation, here’s what nurses don鈥檛 want: 鈥渁ppreciation that is lip service,鈥 鈥渕arketing campaigns鈥 and 鈥渟hiny new buildings.鈥 And this year might well prove to be a turning point in efforts to organize health care鈥檚 essential workers.
Data Science Proved What Pittsburgh鈥檚 Black Leaders Knew: Racial Disparities Compound Covid Risk
Inside the Black Equity Coalition鈥檚 novel effort to share community health intel and scrape government data to understand 鈥 and document 鈥 the life-threatening differences between white and Black Pittsburgh.
The Hard Realities of a 鈥楴o Jab, No Job鈥 Mandate for Health Care Workers
Despite a hearts-and-minds campaign and millions spent in incentives, managers struggle to get staffs vaccinated against covid. Some workers have threatened to quit over the pressure to get a shot, which employers can鈥檛 afford.
Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout
As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation鈥檚 richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals 鈥 many serving rural and minority populations 鈥 got a smaller slice of the pie and limped through the year with deficits and a bleak fiscal future.
