Bipartisan Report Calls for New Strategy, Cabinet Post to Fight Opioid Epidemic February 9, 2022 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission...
Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices December 28, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own...
Trump Administration Seeks Medical Privacy Changes December 14, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Urged on by hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease...
COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes Rising in States Hit by Latest Virus Surge November 10, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states...
Check Up: The Post-Pandemic Future of the Current Telehealth Sensation August 31, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Telehealth is a bit of American ingenuity that seems to have paid off in the coronavirus pandemic. Medicare temporarily waived...
Essential Workers With COVID-19 Face Workers’ Compensation Uncertainty July 13, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes, essential workers who get the coronavirus on the job have no...
In U.S., 1 in 4 COVID-19 Deaths Are Residents of Nursing Homes June 22, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Justin Myers Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more...
America Is Still Waiting for Trump’s ‘Much Better’ Replacement for Obamacare January 3, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health...
Costs, Underinsurance Bigger Challenge Than Uninsured in U.S. Health System July 29, 2019 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential...
Congressional Budget Office Warns of ‘Potentially Disruptive’ Move to ‘Medicare for All’ May 3, 2019 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Alan Fram Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be...