Pitt officials said Friday that Allegheny County’s COVID-19 Community Level has shifted from low to medium risk due the current increased impact on the health care system.
For most of the COVID-19 pandemic, Allison Hansen worked 12-hour hospital shifts taking vital signs, testing blood sugar levels and guiding patients on laps around the hallways — often in the densest COVID-19 areas of UPMC Passavant.
Some of these student health care workers shared their experiences, including a changing work environment and how the personal protective equipment shortage has impacted them.
A closer look at the situation suggests that immigration policy as well as state and federal actions aimed at reducing fraud have pushed these children out of health care coverage.
By Neena Hagen, Senior Staff Writer
• February 5, 2019
Pitt College Republicans member Corey Barsky noted early in a Monday night debate against the College Democrats that health care is an issue that brings out passion from both ends of the political spectrum.
Policy changes stalling have been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first several months in office. But for a politician who’s promised health “insurance for everybody,” Trump should find...
On one side of the aisle, U.S. lawmakers are tackling the issue of health care with the broadest strokes possible by introducing a constitutional amendment that affirms access to health care as a basic...
The last health care bill Congress voted on would have left 22 million Americans without health care. Thankfully, it failed — but in its place are radical new suggestions.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.)...
How does something extremely unpopular become law in our democracy? Congress.
Over the past few months I have attempted to keep up with fast-paced news like the GOP’s health care bill’s rapid push...
Regardless of what Sen. Pat Toomey may say, the new Senate health care bill does cut federal spending to Medicaid, and does so in a significant way.
Medicaid is a federal program designed to provide...
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