health care
The Obesity Epidemic: What Americans Can Do
by ANAND PAREKH
What will it take to solve the obesity crisis — increased personal responsibility or policy, systems, and environmental changes?
The VA assists Veterans in a Way the Private System Cannot
by DAVID SHULKIN
We need a system that allows veterans to have options for the best of what VA can offer, as well as the best of what the private sector can offer.
To Protect Service Members and Honor Veterans, Reform the VA
by MICHAEL F. CANNON
Privatization of the VHA would improve health care for veterans and nonveterans alike.
In this edition
by LOU ZICKAR
With our nation approaching the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown, the latest edition of The Ripon Forum examines the state of pandemic preparedness in America and the fact that our country has fewer doctors than virtually every other developed country in the world.
BREAKING POINT
by ROBERT ORR
The United States has fewer physicians per capita than virtually every other developed country. At first glance, our lack of physicians is a puzzle.
Protecting the Doctor-Patient Relationship
by MICHAEL C. BURGESS, M.D.
Many health care practices we consider essential are slowly becoming things of the past or recent memory.
We Are Not Ready for the Next Pandemic. That’s A Choice.
by CAROLYN REYNOLDS
Hundreds of Americans are still dying each day from COVID-19, while the next pandemic could strike at any time – and be much more deadly. In many ways we are even less prepared than before COVID-19.
We Will Commit to a Healthier Future
by VERN BUCHANAN & BRETT GUTHRIE
Increasing choice, competition, and transparency is at the center of House GOP solutions to make health care more affordable.
Ripon Profile of Fred Upton
The Representative of Michigan’s 6th Congressional District reveals who inspired him as a child and what the GOP must do to reclaim its congressional majority in 2022.
What Medicare for All would Mean for Us All
by CHARLES BLAHOUS
Medicare for All would involve an unprecedented expansion of federal government expenditures and tax burdens.