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Diminishing the National Cancer Institute Threatens Americans
Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS In an effort to reduce the size of government, the current administration has proposed an across the board 37% reduction1 in funding for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
There Is Nothing Benign About Reducing the Cancer Research Budget
The US has enjoyed enormous health benefits from discoveries funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Cancer is the second leading cause of death, and 40% of all US individuals will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes.1 However, the risk of dying of cancer has decreased steadily over the last 30 years, resulting in over 4 million fewer deaths in the US and vastly reduced pain and morbidity.
Require Hospitals To Disclose Their Pandemic Plans Now
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that US hospital and health care systems were ill-prepared for the surge of patients who overwhelmed available health care resources. Although considerable research has gleaned important lessons about responding to future surge events, an overlooked resource deserves more attention: the availability of intensive care unit (ICU) hospital beds.
Diminishing the National Cancer Institute Threatens Americans
Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS In an effort to reduce the size of government, the current administration has proposed an across the board 37% reduction1 in funding for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
The Future Priorities of the National Cancer Institute
Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS Fifty-two years ago, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 into law, which established the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in its current form. At the time, the budget was $1.6 billion. Today, it is $7.8 billion, $4.5 billion less than the amount needed to keep up with inflation.
Transparency As A Solution For COVID-19-Related Hospital Capacity Issues
In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many US hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but one of several circulating respiratory viruses and there will be an ongoing need for hospital-based care. The burgeoning Omicron variant is already overwhelming US hospitals because of high rates of hospitalization.
President Biden's Competition Executive Order Can Restore the Health of the Health Care System
In January 2021 President Biden issued the Executive Order (EO), Modernizing Regulatory Review, that emphasized the importance of swift and effective Federal action to review regulations that will improve the lives of the American people. In July he issued the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, that singles-out anti-trust regulatory failure as key to the excessive concentration of industry to help the American people.
For Some, Vaccination is Not a Choice
Michael A. Friedman & Richard J. Boxer RealClearPolicy November 17, 2021 Health Service Providers (HSPs) include doctors, nurses, aides, orderlies, medical technicians and anyone working to restore or maintain wellbeing. We share a sacred obligation to put the interests of those for whom we care foremost. For millennia healers, philosophers, and religious leaders have codified this expectation to always provide the “best” for patients, placing their welfare over personal beliefs and preferences.
For Some, Vaccination is Not a Choice - It's An Obligation
By Michael A. Friedman & Richard J. Boxer November 17, 2021 Health Service Providers (HSPs) include doctors, nurses, aides, orderlies, medical technicians and anyone working to restore or maintain wellbeing. We share a sacred obligation to put the interests of those for whom we care foremost. For millennia healers, philosophers, and religious leaders have codified this expectation to always provide the “best” for patients, placing their welfare over personal beliefs and preferences.
Covid & Cancer: A Toxic Combination
(Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP) Covid -19 has caused 400,000 deaths in America disproportionately upon communities of color, poverty, immigrants, and older age. It has exposed the inequities within our health care system. However, the patients at greatest risk of death from Covid are those with cancer. Covid-19 has ravaged patients with cancer.
Covid & Cancer: A Toxic Combination
Covid -19 has caused 400,000 deaths in America disproportionately upon communities of color, poverty, immigrants, and older age. It has exposed the inequities within our health care system. However, the patients at greatest risk of death from Covid are those with cancer. Covid-19 has ravaged patients with cancer.
COVID-19 and Cancer A Toxic Combination
By Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS February 25, 2021 Advertisement COVID-19 has caused 475,000 deaths in America, disproportionately among communities of color, poverty, immigrants, and older age. It has exposed a variety of inequities within our health-care system. However, the patients at greatest risk of death from COVID-19 are those with cancer.
Biden's Health Plan Will Improve Economic Health, Too
AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or ObamaCare has been excellent for the healthcare industry as well as insuring 20 million Americans.
Biden's Health Plan Will Improve the Nation's Economic Health, Too
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or ObamaCare has been excellent for the healthcare industry as well as insuring 20 million Americans.
A Pragmatic Way to Create Jobs, & Reduce Opioid Crisis
Richard Boxer & Jonathan Fielding RealClearPolicy October 8, 2020 John T. Greilick/Detroit News via AP Solving the opioid crisis demands improving the upstream socio-economic problems that creates the fertile environment for despair and subsequent addiction. Initiating a policy that increases jobs and education; reduces poverty, opioid overdoses, and hopelessness; and simultaneously improves the nation’s infrastructure can be realized using previously or proposed appropriated legislation.
A Pragmatic Way to Improve Infrastructure, Create Jobs, & Reduce the Opioid Crisis
Solving the opioid crisis demands improving the upstream socio-economic problems that creates the fertile environment for despair and subsequent addiction. Initiating a policy that increases jobs and education; reduces poverty, opioid overdoses, and hopelessness; and simultaneously improves the nation’s infrastructure can be realized using previously or proposed appropriated legislation. Before the 2018 election, the Senate approved $8.3B opioid legislation by a vote of 99 to one.
It's Time For A Bipartisan Health Plan For Employers And Employees
Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer prescribe a seemingly impossible cure for battling health ... [+] care options: a plan that embraces both Republican and Democratic ideas. iStockphoto by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars?
Here’s How to Pay for the Public Option Without Raising Taxes
If you didn’t know it before, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the starkest possible confirmation that fixing healthcare is the number one issue facing the nation. The American people agree. Unfortunately, leaders of both parties believe the deep gulfs between the Democrats’ offer of expansion of publicly managed coverage and the Republicans’ options for cost controls and freedom of choice are irreconcilable. They are wrong.
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if their employer chooses the health insurance they should have, rather than what they want?
The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All
Share How can the United States better control its health care costs and quality and still achieve universal coverage? The strongest choice is not Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance; it’s the public option, which would allow people to choose from Medicare or private insurers.
The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All
How can the United States better control its health care costs and quality and still achieve universal coverage? The strongest choice is not Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance; it’s the public option, which would allow people to choose from Medicare or private insurers. But the public option can only succeed in controlling costs and quality and achieving universal coverage if it is implemented without the financing gimmicks that characterize Medicare.
Medical Marijuana: Research Not Anecdotes
For patients with cancer, marijuana may be valuable in controlling pain and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Furthermore, it may have efficacy as an appetite stimulant. No randomized clinical trial has investigated the utility of whole-plant medical marijuana to alleviate these symptoms in patients with cancer, however.
Can Marijuana Alleviate the Opioid Crisis?
Jennifer, a 37-year-old Virginia school teacher now unable to work due to unrelenting pain caused by a genetic spinal disease, stared hopelessly at the bottle of opioids her doctor had prescribed her. Beset by desperation discomfort, she faced a difficult choice. The opioids would provide limited relief but came with a high risk of addiction. Or she could try marijuana, which would likely be safer but put her on the wrong side of the law. Jennifer chose marijuana.
UCLA faculty voice: It’ll take more than a Band-Aid to fix Medicaid
Regina Herzlinger is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Dr. Richard Boxer is a visiting professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. This op-ed was published in the Wall Street Journal. One of the most fraught questions in Donald Trump’s Washington is how Republicans will reform health care.
It’ll Take More Than a Band-Aid to Fix Medicaid
One of the most fraught questions in Donald Trump’s Washington is how Republicans will reform health care. No aspect of the debate over ObamaCare presents as much risk, or opportunity, as what to do with the law’s expansion of Medicaid, which gave government health insurance to millions of Americans. It won’t be easy, but President Trump and Congress have an opportunity to control Medicaid costs, improve the health of enrollees—and also win bipartisan support.
Making the ACA Affordable - bipartisan lessons from abroad
The two major barriers to maintaining the portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are widely popular — even among Republicans — are its sky high costs and the bitter partisan rancor about how to fix them. We can learn how to attain bipartisan solutions for universal health care coverage at reasonable costs from three other countries whose healthcare systems are similar to the ACA’s: Switzerland, Germany, and Singapore.
How Health Care Hurts Your Paycheck
If there is a coherent theme to this year’s election, it is the growing economic frustration of working Americans. While trade has been the chief scapegoat, a major culprit has received much less attention: the rising cost of health insurance. Recent news of large price increases for plans on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges was the latest example of an unsustainable trend. But those exchanges sell insurance to only about 12 million individuals.
When a Doctor Is Always a Phone Call Away
A 39-year-old truck driver was hauling through the Midwest in the middle of the night in 2011 when he began to feel a bit of indigestion. Then a lot of indigestion. He pulled over, recalling that his company had recently signed on with Teladoc, for which I was then the chief medical officer. The service allowed him to get a doctor on the phone within 15 minutes. He called and described his symptoms: nausea, chest pain, a little numbness in his left arm.
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