The Biden administration and Congress are addressing the escalating costs of health care and health insurance by extending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies into the pandemic era in the United States. Inflation reduction law. However, simply transferring the increased costs to taxpayers does nothing to address the unsustainable basic health care crisis. In fact, … Read more
Progress continued in the first year of COVID-19 – but more work is needed Despite a 14 percent drop in first-time English enrollment in the fall of 2020, access to English at the transfer level remained high, and progress continued the previous fall. In fact, the proportion of first-time English students enrolled directly in college … Read more
Last week, a federal court in New York Rule That the “insurer’s very broad duty to defend the insured” extends to the policyholder’s compensation to property owners in a basic tort action. ConMed Corporation (“ConMed”), a medical technology company, sued Federal Insurance Company (“Federal”), a division of Chubb, alleging that the Federal had violated the … Read more
If you care about your health, you need health insurance. Many American citizens, unfortunately, do not take out health insurance policies, not because they cannot afford it, but simply because they do not think ahead. It is also a good idea to have a health insurance policy in places where health care is nationalized since … Read more
My patient’s trip to the clinic took nearly two hours – a subway, a bus, and enough traffic to raise her blood pressure an extra 10 points. Plus she was missing a day’s work – and pay – as a contract cleaner. When I asked her if she would prefer a televised visit to our … Read more
Carla Soberana Artes is an economist who has worked as an expert Policy Analyst for the Bank of England and Europe Research Analyst at The Economist Intelligence. If the eurozone were a school, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain would be the laggards in the class. The four countries, with the ugly acronym PIGS, are loud, … Read more
Ministers have admitted that thirty-four hospital buildings in England have roofs made of concrete so unstable that they could fall at any time. The revelation has led to renewed fears that ceilings in affected hospitals could suddenly collapse, injuring staff and patients, and calls for urgent action to address the problem. Maria Caulfield, the Secretary … Read more
Republicans are under fire for their rhetoric of more than $80 billion in IRS funding, including a massive climate, tax and health care bill that Congressional Democrats are sending to the White House. The funding, which spans more than 10 years, aims to help the IRS implement various provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, which … Read more
Still trying to get around the latest COVID guidelines? In short, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has streamlined a new set of recommendations for quarantine, social distancing and even testing geared toward tackling the evolving pandemic. The changes, which come more than two and a half years after the pandemic began, are prompted … Read more
Hood River Democratic Representative Anna Williams, who has spent the past four years in the legislature and has focused on human services policy, He will soon trade state assembly for a new political job. Williams, who was first elected in 2018, will be the new executive director of the Oregon Care System Advisory Board starting … Read more
