A recent study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund analyzed the healthcare systems of 11 high-income countries, including the United States. The study analyzed five metrics of healthcare and found that, despite spending the largest portion of its gross domestic product...
In late June, the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson announced that it reached a $230 million settlement with New York State after being sued for its role in creating the opioid crisis. Johnson & Johnson manufactured different opioid painkillers for...
North Carolina has the second lowest percentage of union members among its workers of all the states in the country. So the fact that 1,600 nurses working at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC, voted on September 17 to join the National Nurses Union is good news for...
During the spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. The only other time in recent history when so many people lost access to coverage was during the 2008-2009 recession, when 3.9 million people became...
Report From a Healthcare Worker in the Bay Area At the beginning of the pandemic, healthcare workers in the San Francisco Bay Area could take solace in the fact that California was “crushing the curve.” While the reduction in services impacted most peoples’...
