Recently the Institute of Medicine challenged our leaders to take a principled approach to achieving universal health insurance coverage in the U.S. by 2010. The president’s new budget fails to meet ...

Rural America's health equity is inseparable from its economic well-being, and aligning these two crucial fields is essential for achieving true rural prosperity. The people who know this best are ...

More than half of the global population — at least 4.5 billion people — did not have coverage or access to essential health services in 2021. That’s according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

One of the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic is the closer alignment between emergency management and the disease monitoring and prevention function of public health. Typically we dealt mainly with ...

Dennis Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland and presidential candidate, famously said: “Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.” ...