by Abigail Nobel | Feb 2, 2023 | 2 yellow conversation on bills
Monopoly Control It’s been a busy week for Michigan insurance regulators. It’s all good if you like monopoly control. I don’t. Monopoly decreases choice where we live and work. It concentrates power at the top. It creates complacency and saps incentive to serve. Last...
by Abigail Nobel | Jan 26, 2023 | 3 green health policy principles
ESG investing is hotly contested in national headlines, making me wonder how deeply it runs in Michigan health policy. What is ESG? ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance, as ideological investment strategies. It is the business and finance corollary to...
by Abigail Nobel | Jan 19, 2023 | 3 green health policy principles
Life as a healthcare professional is based on certain ideals. Here I list five reasons professionals should care about state health policy. Professionals act with good reasons Few can be proud of a clinical decision based on “the state said so.” On the...
by Abigail Nobel | Nov 17, 2022 | 1 red individual empowerment
You know how government gives with one hand, but always takes with the other? Apparently Michigan public health’s three-year spectacle of incompetence failed to drive in the lesson, because instead of slinking away into oblivion, they’re doubling down. The latest buzz...
by Abigail Nobel | Oct 7, 2022 | 2 yellow conversation on bills
Healthcare calls for human relationship and innovation. Instead, Lansing is presents us with standardization and state control, often through healthcare licenses. Michigan bills presented in 2021-22 are likely to return in 2023. They would create new licenses for...
