Author: Mark Wrede

  “Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: ‘Rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10.’”     Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10   I trained […]

  “What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care?The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay.”     Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries   “It’s on our minds a whole […]

  “President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, shared a debate stage June 27 for the first time since 2020, in a confrontation that — because of strict debate rules — managed to avoid the near-constant interruptions […]

  “The debt purchase measure is part of a larger county initiative that includes efforts to prevent the debt from accumulating in the first place, such as boosting hospital financial assistance programs and tracking hospital debt collection practices.”     Los Angeles County Approves Medical […]

  “The money is from a tax on managed-care health plans that’s been around for two decades but has historically been used to offset existing state spending rather than support new investments in Medi-Cal.”     California Leaders Tussle With Health Industry Over Billions of […]