American Health Care Is Understaffed, Because It Is Overregulated
The pandemic highlighted the need for more doctors and nurses.
Nick Ottens writes about American and European politics for Atlantic Sentinel and Wynia’s Week. He specializes in the politics of France, the Netherlands and Spain, and is interested in Catalan separatism, drug, energy and housing policy, the future of farming and meat, health care and multiparty democracy. He has been published by the Atlantic Council, EUobserver, Spain’s The Corner and World Politics Review.
Nick grew up in the countryside of North Holland and lived in New York and Barcelona. He wrote opinion columns about Catalan politics and the region’s attempted breakaway from Spain for De Standaard of Belgium, the NRC newspaper of the Netherlands and The National Interest. He worked for three political-risk consultancies and a non-profit, XPRIZE, where he designed multimillion-dollar prize competitions to accelerate innovation, including in health care and meat alternatives.
In his spare time, Nick edits the online (alternate) history magazine Never Was and writes about the making of Star Trek for Forgotten Trek. He is a member of the Netherlands’ liberal party, VVD.
The pandemic highlighted the need for more doctors and nurses.
French pensions are too generous. The pension system is too expensive.
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Takeaways from the first presidential voting round in France.
This presidential election will be a rematch of the last.
The electoral system, the candidates, the key issues and the most likely outcomes.
Whoever wins the presidency, France will probably have five years of divided government.
Policies include leaving NATO, legalizing cannabis, raising the retirement age and renationalizing motorways.
What the French president has, and hasn’t, got done in five years.
Foreign journalists thought this Dutch finance minister would be different.
The shift in public opinion suggests a way out of the decade-long dispute with Spain.
Countries had already been spooked by Donald Trump’s verbal attacks on NATO.
Russia may be in for a long war, but few experts believe Vladimir Putin will fall.
The Dutch government was warned many times Russia could not be trusted and bought its gas anyway.
It was about time.