Author: Mark Wrede

  “In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand the worsening financial problems eroding rural hospitals nationwide.”     Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services […]

  “If you went ‘anywhere in the world,’ you could get a prescription filled for 40% to 60% less than it costs in the U.S.” —Joe Biden on February 22, 2024, at a campaign reception     Biden Is Right. The US Generally Pays Double […]

  “…as the U.S. health care system turns tens of millions of Americans into debtors, this financial watchdog is increasingly working to protect beleaguered patients, adding hospitals, nursing homes, and patient financing companies to the list of institutions that regulators are probing.”     With […]

  “A landmark 2003 Institute of Medicine report, ‘Unequal Treatment,’ found that limited access to care and other socioeconomic differences explain only part of racial and ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes.”     California Lawsuit Spotlights Broad Legal Attack on Anti-Bias Training in Health Care […]

  “The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the opioid epidemic’s ‘fourth wave,’ which is not only placing drug users at greater risk but is also complicating efforts to address the nation’s drug problem.”     ‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic Crashes […]