The advent of COVID-19 and subsequent social disruption has exacerbated existing nursing workforce shortages. As education programs healthcare providers struggle to meet the care needs their respective communities, ever-present challenge replenishing candidates persists—particularly when those face financial hardships complete education. In an effort mitigate hardships, competency-based (CBE) o...

The politically polarized debate over the role of Medicare in deficit and debt reduction often ignores the accumulating evidence that the program can achieve significant spending reductions without sacrificing Medicare’s essential protections. The caricature of Medicare as a program out of control and in need of fundamental restructuring is wrong. Equally wrong are views that any significant ch...