“A man who was hospitalized with COVID-19 for 62 days received a $1.1 million medical bill” at the end of his hospital stay [3]. The COVID pandemic has exposed devastating flaws in the US healthcare system. Not only is going to hospitals a risk to one’s health due to the risk of contracting COVID, but…
More than half of all Americans take some form of a prescription drug, not to mention various over the counter drugs, vitamins, and other supplements [2]. In fact, the United States is one of the most heavily medicated countries in the world, but also pays far more to stock its medicine cabinet than most other…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as the ACA, PPACA or Obamacare, is the single largest attempt at health care reform since the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare in 1964. Some of the main goals of the ACA are to provide comprehensive, affordable coverage to the estimated 84 million Americans in…
A doctor getting dragged away in handcuffs might be something we see in a movie, but we rarely think of it as a real-life occurrence. Dr. Charles van der Horst proves that assumption wrong. Last May, Dr. van der Horst, Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill, was arrested at the North Carolina…