Editorial writers delve into these public well being subjects.
The Tennessean:
Why Does Tennessee Have So Many Uninsured People?
The American public is very conscious that rising well being care prices are a significant downside for our residents. In reality, a 2022 ballot ranked the difficulty because the second most vital concern of most Americans, proper after the economic system. However, most Americans are unaware that the U.S. trails each different democracy concerning well being care protection. In reality, that lack of insurance coverage is one main motive why quite a few research have rated our well being financing system very poorly versus different developed nations, which typically don’t use our employer-based medical health insurance mannequin. (Jack Bernard, 4/6)
Stat:
The Organ Procurement System Is Failing People Of Color Like Me
I’m a Black girl who has been ready for seven years for a kidney transplant. The organ procurement system has failed me — apparently by design. In December 2021, a federal choose ordered that official policymaking emails from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the federal government contractor accountable for overseeing the organ donation system, be unsealed. The group is the topic of an ongoing bipartisan investigation by the Senate Finance Committee. In justifying a brand new coverage that might systemically drawback folks of colour primarily based on the place they dwell, then-UNOS board member Alexandra Glazier wrote: “The fact that some states do better than others in preventing preventable deaths and providing health care insurance coverage and access means you’re a dumb f— for living there.” (LaQuayia Goldring, 4/7)
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3 Steps ARPA-H Needs To Take To Accomplish Its Mission
Since its formation within the Nineteen Fifties, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, higher referred to as DARPA, has revolutionized the trendy world by way of its mannequin of funding radical innovation. While DARPA initially centered on house and missile protection, the company is well-known for its position in broad, revolutionary technological innovation. In the final 60 years, it has paved the best way for the web, touch-screen know-how, miniaturized GPS gadgets, and extra — in addition to Moderna’s mRNA vaccine by way of the Pandemic Prevention Program, which dates again to 2013. (Travis Whitfill, 4/7)
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A New Report Offers Solutions For Improving Nursing Home Care
Nursing houses have been on the epicenter of the pandemic, although they’ve fallen off the radar for individuals who aren’t dwelling or working in a single, or don’t have family members in them. About 1.3 million Americans dwell within the nation’s 15,000 nursing houses, the place they’re cared for by roughly 3 million workers members. As we write this, almost 170,000 nursing dwelling residents are estimated to have died from Covid-19. Many, many extra have been remoted from household and buddies through the 20-month lockdown. Bed sores, extreme weight reduction, melancholy, and psychological and practical decline have spiked amongst nursing dwelling residents. And nurses, licensed nurse aides, and others who work in these services, placing their very own lives in danger, have labored in essentially the most difficult of circumstances with out enough pay or assist. (David C. Grabowski, Marilyn Rantz and Jasmine L. Travers, 4/6)
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