COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 4 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 3, 2024: * * * Economist, Doctor Suggest Publicly Funded Health Care as Solution to Insurance Woes By Sean Kirkby Publicly funded health care could fix the country's ailing insurance system, an economist and a physician agreed during a Health Journalism 2024 panel. Amy Finkelstein, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that 1 in 10 Americans u  more

ALBANY, New York, July 4 -- Empire Center, a non-profit think tank, issued the following news release: Massachusetts for decades has posted better student outcomes than New York at a considerably lower per-pupil cost. In a new Empire Center report, a former member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education takes the first major step toward understanding this disparity by identifying key differences between the two states' public education systems. In Better Results with L  more