ALEXANDRIA, VA (February 24, 2025) — Older Americans deserve better choices and more control over their health care so they can receive the care they need. Often, our country’s elderly population, especially those on Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage, are the last to acquire new and innovative healthcare tools. To help tackle this issue, Secure…
As America faces a healthcare staffing crisis, the time is now for legislators to implement thoughtful legislation to rehabilitate the sector. Simply, the U.S. does not have enough nurses. Widespread burnout, waning resources, and stressful conditions have rendered a nationwide shortage of nurses. With an aging population and no robust pipeline of future healthcare professionals…
Foreign-educated nurses are poised to “help fill the gaps in care that will soon become chasms,” writes 60 Plus president Saul Anuzis in a new opinion piece. Anuzis notes that according to estimates, “by 2025, the U.S. will experience a shortage of up to 450,000 nurses — up to 20% of the entire workforce.” While…
A new RealClearHealth opinion piece by Chris Carmona highlights the dangers that frivolous litigation poses to the country’s health care system and supply of crucial labor. Carmona writes that a nurse from the Philippines has sued her employer, CommuniCare, as well as Worldwide HealthStaff, the firm that recruited her. The nurse alleges that by holding…
In the midst of America’s nursing shortage, it is imperative that leaders in the healthcare sector and legislators employ all tools at their disposal to find a solution to the crisis—including employing foreign-educated nurses. A key part of this is ensuring that the visa process is efficient, fair, and working in Americans’ best interests. In…
While the immediate effects of the nursing shortage are well documented, the long-term ramifications on the pipeline of workers are more subtle. A new report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany’s School of Public Health details the bleak outlook on the nursing education industry. The report found that one…
Gerard Scimeca, an attorney and the chairman of CASE – Consumer Action for a Stronger Economy, wrote a recent opinion piece about the nation’s nursing shortage and how a series of lawsuits “making increasingly outrageous claims” against healthcare staffing companies could worsen it. Scimeca writes that there are some who seek “to exploit our legal…
