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10 articles tagged medical systems.

The End-of-Life Care Reform That Is Long Overdue. Meridian opinion analysis.Opinion

The End-of-Life Care Reform That Is Long Overdue

Every health system eventually faces this conversation. The systems that face it earlier produce better outcomes than the ones that defer.

By Diego Arroyo · May 30

Mental Health Expansion Funded the Crisis Services. It Skipped What Works.. Meridian opinion analysis.Opinion

Mental Health Expansion Funded the Crisis Services. It Skipped What Works.

Why earlier interventions have been comparatively neglected, what they require, and what a serious agenda would prioritize that the current expansion does not.

By Diego Arroyo · Dec 16

End-of-Life Policy Produces Good Rhetoric and Bad Policy. Try Different.. Meridian opinion analysis.Opinion

End-of-Life Policy Produces Good Rhetoric and Bad Policy. Try Different.

Why the current conversation works to avoid the trade-offs any actual policy would face, and what honest engagement on the real choices would look like.

By Diego Arroyo · Dec 4

Universal Basic Services Is the Better Frame. The UBI Debate Keeps Missing It.. Meridian opinion analysis.Opinion

Universal Basic Services Is the Better Frame. The UBI Debate Keeps Missing It.

Why the politics of services produces broader coalitions, more durable programs, and better outcomes than the income debate keeps fighting over.

By Diego Arroyo · Aug 26

Professional Licensing Portability Is the Quiet Reform That Is Actually Moving. Meridian opinion analysis.Opinion

Professional Licensing Portability Is the Quiet Reform That Is Actually Moving

Why the patchwork is changing through interstate compacts, what the early reforms have already achieved, and which professions the unfinished agenda still has to reach.

By Diego Arroyo · Mar 26

Private Equity Is Sitting on Record Capital. Why It Won't Get Deployed.. Meridian business analysis.Business

Private Equity Is Sitting on Record Capital. Why It Won't Get Deployed.

The accumulation is not the signal. The widening gap between what funds raised and what they actually put to work is, and limited partners are getting impatient.

By Marcus Okafor · Dec 29

Three States Tried Three Different Healthcare Models. They Got the Same Result.. Meridian politics analysis.Politics

Three States Tried Three Different Healthcare Models. They Got the Same Result.

Why the convergence is the policy story, and what the enabling conditions behind every successful pilot actually were.

By Lena Holloway · Sep 15

The WHO Leadership Change Is Forcing a Conversation Members Have Long Avoided. Meridian world analysis.World

The WHO Leadership Change Is Forcing a Conversation Members Have Long Avoided

Why the trade-off between pandemic readiness and routine programs is being aired more openly than past transitions ever allowed, and where members fundamentally disagree.

By Lena Holloway · Aug 3

Activist Investors Quietly Spread to Sectors You Were Not Watching. Meridian business analysis.Business

Activist Investors Quietly Spread to Sectors You Were Not Watching

Why this quarter's campaigns extended beyond the categories activism historically dominated, and how target companies are responding more carefully than they used to.

By Marcus Okafor · Jul 25

VA Clinics Are Quietly Triaging Patients. The Department's Own Reports Say So.. Meridian politics analysis.Politics

VA Clinics Are Quietly Triaging Patients. The Department's Own Reports Say So.

How regional managers are improvising around a staffing shortage that headquarters has not acknowledged on the timeline the field is actually working on.

By Lena Holloway · Apr 1