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Minnesota's Response to the Opioid Crisis: Successes and Challenges

Minnesota’s Response to the Opioid Crisis: Successes and Challenges

Will Sherry, Contributor March 29, 2023

The opioid crisis has been a major public health issue in the United States for over a decade, and Minnesota has not been immune to its devastating effects. Opioid addiction and overdose deaths have been...

MPact Health Care Innovation Vision at the University of Minnesota

MPact Health Care Innovation Vision at the University of Minnesota

Haley Wolff, Contributer December 1, 2022

On January 12th of 2023 the University of Minnesota announced the MPact Health Care Innovation vision. This nation-leading Medical School’s mission is to “to be a leader in enhancing the health of...

What’s Next After the Nurses Strike?

What’s Next After the Nurses Strike?

Jack Radomski, Editor September 21, 2022

The largest private sector nurses’ strike in U.S. history occurred this month over a three-day period from September 12 to September 14, as about 15,000 nurses went on strike across the state of Minnesota...

Conflict of Interest in Nation's Largest Special Interest Group: AARP

Conflict of Interest in Nation’s Largest Special Interest Group: AARP

John Quinlan, Contributor March 23, 2022

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is the largest special interest group in the United States, boasting a membership of 38 million. AARP claims to be a champion of causes for seniors such...

Minnesota Governor Targets College Students With Harsh New Restrictions

Minnesota Governor Targets College Students With Harsh New Restrictions

Max Fagan, Contributor November 19, 2020

Governor Walz has come out to speak twice now in the month of November, trying to explain that now that winter is coming and the temperatures are dropping, our cases seem to be rising again. He said the...

The Green New Deal vs. Basic Mathematics

The Green New Deal vs. Basic Mathematics

Avery Heinen, Contributor October 21, 2020

One of the first things you learn in an American civics class is that a president of the United States serves a maximum of two terms in office. This was the precedent set by George Washington when he declined...

The moving target, COVID-19

The moving target, COVID-19

Adam Albright April 23, 2020

I write this article today, about a month into quarantine to hopefully mitigate some of the pessimism surrounding COVID-19 and to hopefully provide another source of information for college students to...

Coronavirus and the stock market

Coronavirus and the stock market

Johnny Bailey, Contributor March 8, 2020

  When the coronavirus first made noise across the globe in Wuhan, China, the United States experienced very little economic impact. While factories and businesses began to close across China,...

Changing to a value-based healthcare system

Changing to a value-based healthcare system

Adam Albright March 5, 2020
How can we create a model that improves outcomes and reduces overall costs? It’s called Value-Based Healthcare.
The Future of Healthcare

The Future of Healthcare

Adam Albright, Contributor February 20, 2020
Why have we not supported the adoption of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry?
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Fabricated rights: healthcare edition

Nathan Harman, Contributor November 21, 2019

A few weeks ago, when I was participating in the Bipartisan Issues Group’s ideology debate, the topic of how the government should intervene in healthcare came up. My Democratic colleague gave the...

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