I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Gretchen Morgenson of NBC News. In 2002, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Wall Street. I assisted her on a piece she was doing on the influence of private equity firms on healthcare and housing. A private equity firm owns Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center. […]

Nicholas Jacobs, FACHE (Fellow in the College of Healthcare Executives) is a former music teacher who has become a leader in the field of health care. He is the director of Senior Management Resources. His blog Healing Hospitals chronicles his efforts to improve healthcare for all. He has written books titled Taking the Hell out […]

In my last post I spoke of how Pennsylvania’s case mortality rate (7.16%) was greater than the U.S. rate (5.91%).  At the time I was unsure how the state compared to the other states in the case mortality rate.  To do this I looked at the cases reported on Johns-Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard.  The numbers that […]

I thought I would take a break from Corona Virus numbers to talk about other numbers that I have covered over the years: County Health Rankings and the the Southern Poverty Law Centers annual count of hate groups in the US.  On the surface they are unrelated but because both happens in Pennsylvania and the […]

I saw this article by a Julian Routh of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where he reports on a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Cook Political Report of voters in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin called The Blue Wall Project.  He highlights their responses to questions on implementing a Medicare for All […]

The website Tarbell has published an analysis of the 62 freshman House Democrats looking at their support for Medicare for All and how much in campaign donations from the health care industry that they received.  The author, Danielle Keeton-Olsen, states that those members who publicly declared their support for Medicare for All or Single Payer […]

The SAHIE estimates for every county in the US are out for 2015.  Last week I posted on state level estimates, other state level measures, and Trump’s % of the vote.  This week I thought I would focus exclusively on uninsured and poverty in my native county, Cambria County in Pennsylvania. The graph above shows […]

The past weeks events regarding the proposed ACA (or Obamacare) repeal and replacement must be causing some amusement among Barack Obama and his minions.  The question remains: Where do we go from here?The Real Clear Politics Average of public opinion polls has shown a steady increase in support for the ACA since the November election.  […]

Every year US News and World Report ranks the top colleges and hospitals in the US.  Those that are ranked high use these results to market their institutions to potential students and/or patients.  I’ve been asked by a friend to comment on the method that US News and World Report uses to create the annual […]

One way of keeping the Momentum from the primary going is to advocate for the causes that we care about. One of our Single payer healthcare which covers everyone while controlling costs and is used in almost every industrialized country except our own. Healthcare 4 All PA is an organization advocating for a Single Payer […]