Before Dobbs and after, difficult situations make for impossible choices.
By Anonymous
Pro-unionization language dropped from Pennsylvania multi-billion dollar Medicaid contracts
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services cites concerns about “misinformation” and “confusion” in its decision.
By Anthony Hennen
Dr. Meilin Young: Without action, another healthcare risk looms in PA
As our state emerges from the Covid-19 crisis, another public healthcare risk looms.
By Dr. Meilin Young
Gambescia + Morris: Faint concern for health risks with widespread use of cannabis
Few public health groups have anything to say about the risk of marijuana. One potential scenario: the country’s next public health crisis.
By Stephen F. Gambescia and Thomas Morris
Gina Diorio: Wolf admin plays dumb on Covid data — again
As the Wolf administration issues weekly press releases on Covid cases, our Department of Health isn’t tracking how many Covid hospitalizations are actually due to Covid.
By Gina Diorio
Richard Koenig: A New Year’s resolution: Get back to pre-Covid normal — soonest
All I want for the New Year is an end to the “new normal.”
By Richard Koenig
Yaël Ossowski: Reckoning with insurance for better patient choice in healthcare
A new Senate bill seeks to take the hassle of dealing with healthcare companies away from patients and into the hands of insurance companies. Although it falls short of the mark, this bill is a step in the right direction toward sensible healthcare reform in Pennsylvania.
By Yaël Ossowski
Kirk Allen & John Kraft: Dr. Fauci warned about coronaviruses in 2003 – but didn’t act on it
Because he did very little in the last 17 years to address the very concerns about coronaviruses he raised in his testimony in 2003, Dr. Fauci should resign in disgrace.
By Kirk Allen & John Kraft
Second wave of Covid-19 was more deadly for Pa. nursing homes than first wave
The “fall surge” of Covid-19 cases created more deaths in nursing homes across the nation. But data reviewed by Broad + Liberty shows the fatality rate in Pennsylvania for the second surge was nearly two times the national average.
By Todd Shepherd