The diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic. This limits the length of time that health gains can be internalized as reduced claims.’ — David Anderson, University of South Carolina health policy expert Yet millions of Americans are unable to access these drugs, thanks to the two big, interrelated flaws in our healthcare system: unrestrained pricing by drug companies and the economics …
It shouldn’t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them. A third conspicuous failure of our healthcare system, looming in the background every week for physicians like me, is hospital funding. These are only a few of the ways that the U.S. healthcare system’s failures now weigh on physicians. If a federal single-payer system …
Herb Smith, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Mission, gives masks to Carmen Santiago and Juanita Glover, left, on skid row in downtown Los Angeles in this 2020 photo. “These numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday. “It would mean that hospitalizations are really going up very, very …
A man waits for a COVID-19 vaccination booster shot at a pharmacy in Denver. Colorado “may be a precursor to what we could see ultimately here in California as things get cooler for us,” UCLA epidemiologist Dr. Robert Kim-Farley said. Chillier weather hits Colorado earlier than California, sending people indoors, “which leads to higher potential for transmission of COVID.” In …
