UCM Digital Health Partners with Empress EMS to provide mobile integrated health: available in Rockland

UCM Digital Health Partners with Empress EMS to provide mobile integrated health: available in Rockland

UCM Digital Health (UCM), a leading digital health and telehealth provider, including a 24/7 emergency medicine triage, treatment, and navigation service, has come together with Empress Emergency Medical Services (Empress) to effectively provide mobile integrated health in the Rockland County area. This collaboration will provide it through a combination of virtual and hands-on medical care […]

“Race Card” Not Enough to Protect Obama from Lies and Incompetence

BY DERRYCK GREEN To say the ObamaCare rollout has been difficult for President Obama is an understatement. It is the epitome of a disaster. Obama has been in damage-control mode since October 1. The release of his signature legislation, the misnamed Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), has been disastrous. Bureaucratic incompetence is on full display as […]

Expanding Medicaid: A Foolish Way to Improve Healthcare Access

BY SALLY C. PIPES United States Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said “that if you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been […]

The Power of Prevention

BY KENNETH THORPE, Ph.D. The media is abuzz with stories of outrageous markups at many hospitals. One of the most eye-popping numbers making the rounds? A supposedly “non-profit” hospital charges $1.50 per pill for a generic version of Tylenol. That’s about 100 times the retail price. Obviously, health care takes too much out of our […]