(The Center Square) — Preparing Pennsylvania localities to deal with xylazine, a horse tranquilizer that’s mixed in with fentanyl, has cost the state almost $500,000 thus far. The money, spent in an effort to send out 50,000 xylazine wound care kits, is part of a harm-reduction effort to get help […]
Becky Corbin: Pennsylvania’s untenable health care status quo
A few large insurers have a legal oligopoly, with rising premiums as the result.
By Becky Corbin
Vicki Lightcap: PBMs provide a remedy to expensive healthcare
Rather than adding more government red tape in healthcare, lawmakers should build on the progress and benefits brought by PBMs.
By Vicki Lightcap
State may ban non-compete agreements for doctors, nurses
The change would help reduce health care costs, proponents said.
By Anthony Hennen
Beth Ann Rosica: UK study has local implications for children and transgender treatments
Findings from a revolutionary new report on gender identity services for children contradict current US and local practices.
By Beth Ann Rosica
David Mitchell: Nurse practitioners can solve rural health care shortages
In states where they have full practice authority, NPs can help meet patients’ needs in underserved communities — but not Pennsylvania.
By David Mitchell
Pennsylvania’s estimated $3 billion Medicaid waiver questioned
Shapiro and Arkoosh want to expand state-provided medical care — but can the taxpayers afford it?
By Christen Smith
Frank Speidel: Throughout Pennsylvania and our republic, health care is withering
Healthcare costs more and Medicare and Medicaid pay less — is it any wonder hospitals are losing money?
By Frank Speidel, MD
Pennsylvania nurses wait months longer than others to get a license, start work
The Commonwealth’s regulations are onerous and time-consuming compared to other states.
By Anthony Hennen
An anonymous perspective on Roe v. Wade, overturned
Before Dobbs and after, difficult situations make for impossible choices.
By Anonymous