Insights for action
Ask These 5 Questions if Your Family is Hospitalised for COVID
COVID communication is fraught, especially when a family member is very ill. At such a time, only one thing matters: patient recovery. Asking these questions can enable patient and family conversations with hospital staff to focus on that goal. As COVID diminishes,...
Practical Pharmacy Tips
He that pays the piper at the pharmacy… This story from my days working the Nurse Call Line shows where we've gone wrong with buying medication. The Call: “I took my prescription to the pharmacy today because I had to be somewhere else after my visit on Friday. The...
MDHHS Part 3: Dependency
When COVID hit, Michigan residents set about home gardening in record numbers. Apparently competing with people's innate drive for food independence, Governor Whitmer shut down plant and seed sales, and the Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services (MDHHS)...
How Big is MDHHS? Part 1
Michigan residents are aware of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) through COVID-19 closures, mandates, and vaccination. However, the department runs many additional programs as well. MDHHS denied Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services' ...
Michigan’s 2021 Heroes of Healthcare Freedom
The people of Michigan owe special thanks to healthcare heroes who defended our freedom in 2021. Healthcare professionals prefer to save lives. These Michigan heroes didn’t set out to be freedom activists when vaccine mandates threatened their jobs. Probably, few had...
Act on Federal Vaccine Mandates: 7 Things to Know
All of us in Michigan have reason to act against federal vaccine mandates. They attack the heart and conscience of healthcare. Each deadline disrupts more people's lives, forcing them to choose between their own health decision and their livelihood caring for others....
Insights & Action: Today’s Clash of Worldviews in Lansing Health Policy
Good morning! I'd like to present a contrast to you today. Two worldviews are battling for control of healthcare. One perspective values each individual life as a gift from God. Humans are born with equal inherent worth. Law protects God-given individual rights and...
Health Policy Foundations, Pt 1
BLOG Where Did we Go Wrong? Put aside the politics, the financial interests, and the public manipulation for a moment. In a constitutional America hit by an unknown infectious disease, what would health policy look like? With limited government, health policy is...
What Are the Sharing Organizations?
Sharing organizations crept slowly into the public consciousness for a few decades, but with the effects of the ACA they are exploding in membership, talk radio coverage, and innovation.
Michigan Increasing Tax on Nurses
Increasing the price nurses must pay to work in Michigan is set to impact healthcare consumers and professionals as the Michigan House Health Policy Committee hears testimony on HB 5400, “Expand Scope of Practice for Nurses” on Tuesday, September 20.
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Join the bridge to the other side
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