Richard Besser

Nov 20, 2024 | usnews.com | Brian Castrucci |John Kasich |Richard Besser |Jennifer Mieres

Let’s face it: America is not the healthiest country in the world. Life expectancy is falling, chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease are soaring and our country is plagued by health inequities. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, American babies born today are expected to live shorter lives than their peers in other high-income countries. Despite spending more on health care than any other country, our outcomes lag behind. America can – and must – do better.

Nov 18, 2024 | usnews.com | Dean Obeidallah |Richard Besser |Albert Hunt

Let people debate whether President-elect Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing pick of former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz as his attorney general will be good, bad or really ugly. But there is no debate in my mind that President Joe Biden’s chief prosecutor, Merrick Garland, is already the biggest failure of an attorney general in our lifetimes.

Nov 16, 2024 | usnews.com | Richard Besser |Albert Hunt |Mary Ziegler

The person who leads the Department of Health and Human Services oversees a vast workforce of more than 80,000 people, steers a $1.7 trillion budget, and can lift and improve the lives of all Americans. This one individual can pull the levers to ensure safer foods, provide better insurance coverage, build more resilient health systems and deliver lifesaving vaccines. That same person can also undermine all of those things. That’s why President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead HHS, Robert F.

Nov 7, 2023 | cancersupportcommunity.org | Richard Besser

It is a disheartening reality that certain populations are isolated from the opportunity to achieve optimal health. Yet this acknowledgement is the first step toward developing solutions that achieve health equity. Health inequity is evident across all healthcare disciplines, but it’s especially prominent in the mental health sector. The inequities in mental healthcare have been felt deeply in the past few years.