KEVINMD Blog: Violence against health care workers: the silence must end
We must find a way to replace silence and silencing with transparency, publishing assault statistics and protecting whistleblowers, as well as ensuring accountability at every level. It should be the responsibility of policymakers to ensure health care workers (nurses, EMTs, PAs, doctors) are not suffering in silence or told their experiences are simply part of the job.
Op-Ed: Property taxes are crushing NH families and it doesn’t have to be this way
What we need now is a federal delegation with the courage to bring this same innovative and evidence-based approach to their work in Washington. You want to talk about property tax relief? Here are two ways the federal government could help lower your property taxes, now.
How we fix our prior authorization problems…
For years, I thought I just had terrible luck with doctors and pharmacies. How was it that every couple months, I would wind up having to go back and forth from my insurance, to my doctor, to my pharmacy, to figure out why some medicine my kids or I had been prescribed wasn’t going to be available to us because of something called “prior authorization.” As I’ve been out in the community meeting voters, I have learned how widespread and insidious the prior authorization really is, and I have also learned that it is completely fixable.
Interview: “Democratic congressional candidate Carleigh Beriont voices concerns about ‘lack of trust’ in politicians”
I support policies that don’t yet have universal backing within the party, like Medicare for All and “back-from-the-brink” legislation that would ensure no single person, including President Donald Trump, has unilateral authority to launch nuclear weapons. When you listen to people across the district, you don’t start by asking what party they belong to. You ask what they care about. People want to be safe, afford to live here and cool down the tone of our politics.