Healthcare Archives

Op-Ed/Commentary

Health and Social ProgramsHealthcarePrivate Equity Envision on the Rocks

Envision Healthcare – the private equity-owned physician staffing firm whose clinicians can be found staffing 540 health care facilities in 45 states – is in serious financial trouble.

Eileen Appelbaum / May 04, 2023

Op-Ed/Commentary

BudgetBudget and National DebtHealth and Social ProgramsHealthcareUnited States Medicaid Work Requirements: Fun with Numbers for the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal apparently believes this is a better way to reduce the federal budget deficit than making rich people pay the taxes they owe. That’s fine, but it should not try to hide its priorities from readers.

Dean Baker / April 26, 2023

Op-Ed/Commentary

COVID-19HealthcareLong COVIDUnited States End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations is Shortsighted and Premature

In January 2023, the Biden administration announced its plans to end two COVID-19-related emergency declarations — a “public health emergency” declaration and a “national emergency” declaration — on May 11, 2023.

Hayley Brown Tori Coan / April 18, 2023

Article

Affordable Care ActHealthcare Thirteen Years After Passage of ACA: Real Progress Has Been Made, But US Needs Medicare for All

Signed by President Obama 13 years ago, the Affordable Care Act was an essential step toward ensuring that health care is a right, not a privilege, in the United States.

Shawn Fremstad Hayley Brown / March 23, 2023