The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months.

Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...

Some hold significant promise; for example, funding approaches such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Services All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model are ...

In perhaps the most famous example, the state’s police power to protect public health was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1905 decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts .

These systems, though, come with strong oversight from the state and the public. They are called public health care districts and Palomar Health is one of them. Over the past year, I’ve written a few ...

Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. by Margaret Coker , The Current , June 26 ...

Last year, half of the 10 highest-paid public servants in the county were health care executives. In 2018, none of the top 10 worked in health care. News Sports Opinion Entertainment Education ...