Health Care Policy
November 7, 2025
Traditional Medicare with a Medigap secondary insurer is the better choice for complete and more flexible coverage with no deductible…
, , , ,July 17, 2025
The Trump administration is revoking billions of dollars of NIH grants and drastically reducing funding at CDC, FDA, and EPA.…
, , , ,February 28, 2025
Primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham facilities moved to unionize last fall. I totally support this. Unionization may allow…
, , ,February 28, 2025
Bird flu has spread to cows and infected some humans. Fear of human-to-human transmission is real, though has not yet…
, , , ,December 23, 2024
Durable medical equipment prices paid by Medicare may be 3-4 times that for same device online.
, , ,October 20, 2024
Massachusetts taxpayers are paying for Ralph de la Torre's yachts and bloated legal fees that result from the Steward bankruptcy.…
, ,October 3, 2024
Healthcare is what we have now. Health care is what we want.
,October 3, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic continues. Immunization remains critical to individual health and suppressing the epidemic. A third dose of Pfizer vaccine…
, , , ,January 4, 2021
We use available state Covid-19 infection rates and other published data together with the binomial distribution to calculate the risk…
, , , , ,August 16, 2020
We are still in the midst of a pandemic that has subsided in Massachusetts but is still very much with…
, , , , , ,June 8, 2020
We are beginning to leave quarantine. Covid-19 risks are much lower, but still present. We have to keep up our…
, , , ,April 27, 2020
I explain multiple and sometimes complex issues with the Covid-19 epidemic, starting with where we are in the infection epidemiology…
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