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Should hospitals be required to have a certain number of nurses?

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing says that Pennsylvania doesn’t have a shortage of trained nurses, but the state does have a shortage of nurses currently working in hospitals.

Nurses from across Pa. call for action on bill that would set staffing minimums in hospitals, other health care facilities

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing says that Pennsylvania is unique because it has 25 years of data to study on nursing staff ratios.

ChatGPT might show more empathy than docs, study finds

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School says that ChatGPT tries to be chatty and comprehensive.

Are we ready to care for our aging population?

Amol Navathe of the Perelman School of Medicine identifies three fundamental issues with the current system of Medicare.

President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act surrounded by lawmakers and a young child standing by the table.

A detailed look at the history of The Affordable Care Act

In a new book, Penn political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins offers a detailed study of Americans’ opinions about the Affordable Care Act and examines to what extent political elites can reshape public opinion through their words or policies.

In an aging America, a looming shortage of home health care workers

A study led by postdoc Amanda Kreider of the Leonard Davis Institute and Perelman School of Medicine finds that the number of available home care workers has fallen by nearly 12% between 2013 and 2019.

‘It totally backfired’: The pitfalls of Alzheimer’s genetic testing

Emily Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine says that genetic testing for Alzheimer’s can lead to information about siblings and children as well, causing existential dread.

Moving Medicare from hospital to home

Rachel Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, the Wharton School, and the Perelman School of Medicine says that cost implications vary across the different provisions of a new bipartisan Medicare financing bill.

The NIH has poured $1 billion into long COVID research—with little to show for it

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the National Institutes of Health have nothing to show for a billion dollars’ worth of research on long COVID.

Private equity owns 30% of for-profit hospitals, tracker says

Atul Gupta of the Wharton School and the Leonard Davis Institute says that private equity may not be well-suited to the health care industry, which is riddled with imperfections.

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