Healthcare
This paragraph from a WPRI story about the ongoing challenges of Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital seems like a key and crucial detail about which public debate should be happening: Prospect suggested restrictions on the sale imposed by Neronha were the “major barrier” to the Centurion deal closing, along with the nonprofit’s “failure…
John DePetro and Justin Katz run through the mounting number of problems Democrats are causing (and trying to benefit from).
The substance of Richard Asinof’s article on ConvergenceRI is definitely worthy of note: But the team of researchers working at MindImmune, a drug development enterprise working out of the University of Rhode Island, recently announced plans to produce a new drug candidate, MITI-101, to seek to counteract Alzheimer’s disease with a treatment that targets immune cells in…
I hope I’m not alone among Rhode Islanders in feeling the urge to pull out my hair when I read articles like this, from Alexander Castro on Rhode Island Current: A public medical school could generate nearly $1.5 billion for Rhode Island’s economy within its first decade and help shore up the state’s primary care doctors.…
Joseph Parks of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing promoted a recent report from his group during a Rhode Island–based webinar about “mass violence.” Either I’m completely missing his point or, like other people who count as “experts” in the modern West, he’s so tangled up in semantic nuances he says things that are plainly…
Specifically, I mean Democrat Representative June Speakman (Bristol, Warren) and Democrat Senator Pamela Lauria (Barrington, Bristol, East Providence) and their recent op-ed concerning the looming increase in Rhode Islanders’ healthcare premiums: Why the dramatic increase in premiums? While the hefty rate increases just approved by the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner play a role,…
The state jumped into Obamacare with both feet. From Katie Catellani’s reportage in Providence Business News, one might conclude that the system is entirely unaffordable unless the government can come up with excuses to subsidize it: Along with higher usage and pricing factors, individual market premiums are rising partly because of the federal Enhanced Premium Tax…
As government sinks its tendrils more and more deeply into healthcare, residents may find it difficult to stop themselves from pulling out their hair. Even government agents with academic economic knowledge, like Rhode Island’s Health Insurance Commissioner, Cory King, who studied economics along with political economy and public policy on his way to a Master’s…
The image journalists and the news media more broadly cultivated for decades was that their role as the Fourth Estate was to bring information to the People and thereby empower us. If that was ever more than a pretention, it has long since fallen away. This is especially true in regions, like New England, where…
Academics and politicians are always on the prowl for new ways to build systems that can float above the rough and dirty realities of basic economics, and with a growing sense of crisis in healthcare, that area seems to have become a target: Rhode Island has become one of six states approved to join a…
