I meet with health system executives routinely, and I hear very common themes: rising demand for care, a strained workforce and significant cost pressures. Clinicians are stretched. Patients are waiting. Hospitals are working to create more capacity without adding more complexity to a system already struggling to keep up with demand. This “triple threat” is
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in power since 2007, has proposed extending the presidential term for one more year. The government-controlled National Assembly is expected to approve the extension in September. It is part of a constitutional reform proposal that also includes plans to ban opposition members considered by the government to be “traitors” or “coup
