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December 9, 2025

Way to be proactive!

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If you think cost is the only barrier to health care access, you are as misinformed as Congress. In its infinite wisdom, Congress put a fre...
November 24, 2025

When is it time to acknowledge something really has not worked?

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It all began with the U.S. Surgeon General's campaign to curb smoking (which hasn't been all that successful) back in the 1970s. Now...
November 6, 2025

Two-minute read: Another rural health care "solution"?

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Like many other states (with which we must compete), Iowa is just a few years away from suffering historic and life-threatening shortages in...
October 29, 2025

Where did all the children go?

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The Baby Boom isn't just something that happened a long time ago.  Quite the contrary. The impact of those 75,000,000 babies will contin...
October 14, 2025

Four of every ten extended families in America include someone with dementia. What's the plan?

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I can guarantee you that policy makers and stakeholders are not preparing for what's coming. That is why each one of us MUST.
October 2, 2025

Just when you and your physician were really starting to communicate . . .

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Benjamin Franklin said, " You may delay, but time will not ." Those words ring most true when it comes to seeking and receiving he...
September 15, 2025

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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  If you ignore a public health issue long enough, will it just go away?
September 2, 2025

Thirty-five-year-old health care data just isn't going to cut it.

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August 25, 2025

When EHR systems aren't speaking . . .

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August 23, 2025

Failing to plan is--you know how it goes.

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August 21, 2025

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."

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July 17, 2025

Two minute read: Simple steps reaping huge rewards.

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If you're not yet familiar with health care's newest neologism, you're gonna luv this one: "bedlocked."  How about som...
July 1, 2025

This time around: A 15-minute listen on what threatens health care access in Iowa

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Whether or not you live in Iowa, your health care world is about to be rocked. The demographics of aging and chronic illness are straining a...
June 1, 2025

Two-minute read - Lawmakers' at-bat for health care access in Iowa

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A third of Iowa's rural hospitals are operating in the red, and we can expect to be short tens of thousands of physicians, nurses and di...
May 15, 2025

Two-minute read - Iowa lawmakers tackle health care access. Not.

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Iowa's census of physicians has shrunk by 500 over the past ten years, when it needed to grow by 300. Today, the top three employers for...