Healthcare
Writing in Evie magazine, Elizabeth Condra highlights a finding using Pew Research data: The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.” What’s more, white women…
Christian Winthrop spotted the ranking recently for Newport Buzz: In order to help doctors decide where to practice, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 19 key metrics. Their data set ranges from the average annual wage of physicians to hospitals per capita to the quality of the public hospital system.…
Rhode Island’s politicians are happily proclaiming an ostensible gift that they are giving to Ocean State seniors with a law creating minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. Those who currently or may soon utilize such services have enough life experience to think more deeply about how the politicians are changing the terms of our representative…
Growing up in suburban New Jersey, we didn’t have a whole lot of forest in our town. There was a strip of somewhat forested land along the Hackensack River and another cluster between the houses and the stores along Route 4. Even so, my friends and I spent hours and hours adventuring in those limited…
A recent survey of Americans, as reported on Newsmax, finds that one in six “U.S. adult workers have stayed at their jobs because they don’t want to lose employer-sponsored health insurance.” That’s especially true for lower-income workers and minorities. Tying healthcare with employment is one of the more wrong-headed policy decisions our country has made in…
Rhode Island needs a reset of its attitude on COVID, because we’re compounding and extending the economic damage we’ve done through our reaction to the coronavirus by amping up psychological damage to our children. Courtney Carter reports on WPRI: When kids return to summer camp this year, they’ll still need to bring their face masks…
HealthDay reporter Dennis Thompson writes about a trend (via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit) that is certainly worth keeping an eye on: An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID-19 variants as well as other coronaviruses — maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it’s dirt cheap — less…
Mark Zaccaria hones in on a key question that seems like it’s been lost in the shuffle: Can the state government and its subsidiaries selectively emancipate Rhode Island children from their parents for the purpose of deciding whether to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Hey, wasn’t it just a few years ago that the government was…
As shown on the map that is the featured image for this post, the CDC estimates for overdose deaths show them well past projections for every state except South Dakota and Alaska. Rhode Island’s increase was 21.6%, which translated into an additional 71 deaths. I’m a little behind posting this data, which has been out…
The bad news (other than the fact that children have died, of course) is that it’s difficult to come to decisive answers about such deaths, in part because the way the government has been counting COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths has so muddied the water over the past year. However, the number that has come…