Not Everyone Can Take Their Health Insurance Out for a Test Drive — and Survive We’re at a point in the political discourse where the focus is on getting through the end of the pandemic and how to generate economic recovery while handling the worsening impacts of climate change. Universal health care, Medicare for all, whatever your tagline is for fixing the health coverage gaps—it’s not a political priority. That needs to change.
What I Learned from My Ancestor’s Stint as a Volunteer Nurse in Appalachia I hope that this pandemic is a turning point for our society, too. We can’t afford to take nurses for granted. We need to do more than laud them as heroes and need to better support them so we all can have a brighter future.
Respect—and More—for Nursing Home Workers This past year has been hell for them. COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 182,000 nursing home residents and workers. Although cases have plunged as vaccination rates have increased, these workers are still coping with grief, trauma, exhaustion and anxiety. Who knows what the long-term effects will be?
Prioritizing Equity: Who's Being Left Behind In The Global COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout? Behind the amazing public health achievements during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic hides a reality that too few people want to talk about: the wildly inequitable ways in which these vaccines are being distributed around the world.
Our Families Are Not Alright We cannot recover as a nation if we do not support our families. The health of our nation depends on the health of our families -- all our families.