Tag: Economy

Ships together
The cost of the broken sickcare system Modern medicine is effectively based on a reactive management approach. It typically waits for an acute organ failure, such as a heart attack, and then it deploys high-cost, non-curative interventions to manage the fallout. This is a flawed and extremely costly approach for both the patient and healthcare...
Aging is the foremost risk factor for COVID-19
There are many lessons to be learned from the current COVID-19 pandemic, particularly ones about how our society, healthcare system, and socioeconomic system can be better positioned and equipped to cope with future pandemics and other catastrophic events. One important takeaway, however, is already self-evident: age is one of the most significant risk factors for...