Even with U.S. healthcare having the “most unfilled jobs of any industry,” the Biden administration is touting the highest “healthcare job growth in 32 years.” Job growth is always a good thing, or is it? Consider who benefits when the commercial workforce grows….
A recent news report from ABC News caught my eye and should raise the eyebrows of all 85,815,827 Americans enrolled in Medicaid, 26 percent of the U.S. population. Massachusetts Medicaid enrollee Salvatore LoGrande recently lost his battle with cancer after extensive medical…
Gavin Newsom proudly made California the first state to provide no charge Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in Golden State) health insurance to illegal entrants (“illegals”). His plan will cover only adults. Eleven other states also intend to enroll illegals in Medicaid. In contrast to…
U.S. healthcare is failing. Care is both unaffordable and inaccessible; insurance is both unaffordable and fails to deliver timely medical care; and national spending is out of control and “unsustainable” (per President Obama). Who will fix healthcare, a dying system that…
The U.S. has a critical shortage of health care professionals: nurses, mental health therapists, and particularly physicians. The shortage has been worsening over the years and is now at crisis levels, with wait times for care so long that people are…
COVID-19 has produced three great tragedies in the U.S. The public is aware only of the first. Two greater tragedies are carefully ignored by the press. For the past 18 months, Americans have been bombarded on every platform and news…
While getting espresso at my favorite coffee shop, I asked two uniformed police officers in line ahead of me if they felt supported by their leaders or not. The first man laughed and said, “No way. We have the same…
In football, to facemask means to hurt an opponent by grabbing onto the face guard or face mask that is intended to protect him. When a parent puts a face mask on a child, the parent is unintentionally “facemasking” his…
In 1776, the newly minted Americans declared their unequivocal rejection of government tyranny. Back then, tyranny was simple and direct. Today, it’s not. Tyranny describes “cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.” Under 18th century British rule, control…
At present, Washington controls the health care for nearly half — 151.8 million or 46 percent — of the U.S. population. Enrollment in government health insurance programs are as follows: 81 million in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program;…