by Abigail Nobel | May 4, 2023 | 1 red individual empowerment
June 1 will mark one year into Michigan’s mandated Implicit Bias Training (IBT) for all licensed healthcare workers. Back then, I called the IBT mandate immoral, unconstitutional, and tyrannical. Now that they’ve experienced the “training,”...
by Abigail Nobel | Apr 20, 2023 | event
MHF Workshop coming up! To most of us, health policy sounds remote, complicated, and boring. We hope healthcare will get better, but honestly – we’d rather someone else dealt with it. COVID is over, so we’re fine, right? Nothing could be farther from...
by Abigail Nobel | Apr 6, 2023 | 3 green health policy principles
Ever notice how state Medicaid policy is like a narcissist? Too many of us have had a narcissist in our lives. Out of all characteristics, the manipulative mind games may strike the deepest: You are too stupid/ugly/incompetent to make it on your own. No one else would...
by Abigail Nobel | Mar 16, 2023 | 3 green health policy principles
Have you noticed how institutional lines are being blurred? I see it in news headlines, and in Michigan bills as I summarize them for the MHF Guide to State Health Policy. Institutions – many of them – have strayed from their core purpose. This breaks down public...
by Abigail Nobel | Mar 9, 2023 | 1 red individual empowerment
I was a guest this Tuesday on the Nurses Saving Nurses Podcast. The interview with Nathan Baar, nurse CEO, ranged from drug prices to health policy activism. Many experts have documented healthcare shortages for decades, but are they completely real? If you’ve...
