Giving Up The Ghost: Republican State Legislators Begin To Acquiesce to Medicaid Expansion.

Mike Magee In a recent analysis of the U.S. and Canadian health care systems, two things were clear. First, Canada Health Care was planned, and our’s just happened. And second, both nations favored regional over federal delivery systems. In the U.S., that meant a strong bias toward state management, while in Canada the provinces and […]

Guest Blog: Protecting Access to CRNAs Relieves Patient Pain

Christine Zambricki, CRNA, MA, FAAN This week, officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will formally begin considering a rule to protect patient access to pain-management care delivered by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). If CMS doesn’t implement the rule, then many of the 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain will […]