Over the decades, the impacts of the increasing climate crisis-related disasters have exacerbated the loss and damage to life, property, economy and biodiversity. According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the number of disasters has increased five-fold during 1970-2019. The article highlights the need to develop an early weather warning system to reduce the damage caused by climate crisis-related disasters. …
CNN — Leah Blomberg and Marco Paolone both called an ambulance when their coronavirus symptoms worsened. “People do not avoid health care because of cost in Europe,” said Reggie D. Williams II, an international health policy expert at the US-based Commonwealth Fund. “In the US, there isn’t any one health system per se, but multiple systems in each state, and …
The most important question about Medicare for All is a simple one: If other industrialized countries can afford to offer high-quality universal health care to their citizens, why can’t the United States? In a seminal paper published in 2003, Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson found “it’s the prices, stupid” that set the U.S. health care system apart. We have a …
