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Compensation Is Key to Fixing Primary Care Shortage By Michelle Andrews Published November 16, 2023   Money talks.   The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation.   Substantial disparities between what primary care physicians earn relative to specialists like orthopedists and […]

Elizabeth Warren Has an ObamaCare Epiphany Opinion by The Editorial Board Published November 24, 2023   It took 13 years, but Elizabeth Warren is at long last acknowledging that ObamaCare has increased healthcare prices and industry consolidation. Who would have believed it? Government price controls and profit caps have resulted in unintended consequences.   The

10 states predicted to have the greatest physician shortages in 2030 By Riz Hatton Published March 2, 2022   California is expected to experience a shortage of 32,669 physicians by 2030, according to a study published in Human Resources for Health.   The study, published Feb. 6, analyzes current and future physician job surplus and

AAMC Supports Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023 By Stuart Heiser Published March 29, 2023   Reps. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) today introduced the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023. This bipartisan legislation would gradually expand the number of Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over seven years. The AAMC

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Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion By Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton Published October 4, 2023   The federal government is losing as much as $140 billion per year by subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans, according to a bombshell new report. In the groundbreaking investigation, health care researchers identified

Healing Justice Lineages: Disrupting the Medical-Industrial Complex By Sonia Sarkar, Cara Page and Erica Woodland Published April 18, 2023   Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety is a new book from Cara Page and Erica Woodland. I had the opportunity to speak with both authors about the movement

A slow start for Newsom’s gun plan By Lara Korte, Jeremy B. White and Dustin Gardiner Published October 27, 2023   DRIVING THE DAY: Gov. Gavin Newsom is again in Beijing today. Our intrepid colleague Blanca Begert is traveling with the governor during his tour. You can read her coverage in the California Climate newsletter.

US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out By Christina Frangou Published September 26, 2023   Carrie Cunningham puffed out her cheeks and exhaled. She looked out at the audience filled with 2,000 of her peers, surgeons who were attending the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery,