Since 1975, as the population grew by 115 million, the number of hospital beds shrank from 1.5 million to 925,000.
Environment & Health
The U.S. health care system is ill-equipped to provide necessary care for all.
Emblems of life and love are being hurriedly handed from one generation down to the next.
Some nurses are saying, “Well, most of us are going to get it and some of us are going to die. That’s the way it is.”
Third-party companies that bill for out-of-network care stand to profit from the pandemic, at the expense of the ill.
COVID-19, like climate, isn’t just about a singular crisis — it’s about multiple crises unfolding all at once.
Such alternative devices can possibly increase the spread of infectious disease by aerosolizing the virus.
Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus’s Job Creators Network wants Trump to greenlight treatment not backed by research.
A coalition of physicians’ groups warned that Trump’s proposals would jeopardize the lives of millions of Americans.
Trump is expected to approve a $4.5 trillion bailout fund, but a billion on life-saving ventilators is a bridge too far.