Health Care News

Between a rock and a hard place

April 19, 2023

How our system hurts medical workers and how universal health care could help Burnout, workforce distress, moral injury: These terms have different shades of meaning but all point to a growing crisis in medical workers, . . . read more »

Call to Action: Help Stop REACH and protect Medicare

April 7, 2023

Improved Medicare for All is one way to reach our goal of health care for everyone in Maine—Everybody In, Nobody Out. But efforts to privatize original Medicare, including through ACO REACH, threaten the existence of . . . read more »

Physician demoralization and burnout getting more attention

February 22, 2023

Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System. Eric Reinhart New York Times February 5, 2023 “Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly . . . read more »

Greed in U.S. health care

February 22, 2023

Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in U.S. Health Care Don Berwick January 30, 2023 JAMA Network “In the mosaic floor of the opulent atrium of a house excavated at Pompeii is a slogan . . . read more »