Conversations on Health Care

How a West Virginia Community Health Center Leader Inspires the Country

For more than five decades, Craig Robinson has helped shape the future of community health in West Virginia and beyond. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with the longtime executive director of Cabin Creek Health Systems to reflect on a career spent expanding access to care in rural communities, building innovative community health models, and […] The post How a West Virginia Community Health Center Leader Inspires the Country [https://www.mwmediagroup.org/2026/05/how-a-west-virginia-community-health-center-leader-inspires-the-country/] appeared first on Healthy Communities Online [https://www.mwmediagroup.org].

What Fmr. President Obama Told Our Guests About His Big Health Care Misstep

The authors of a new book reveal that former President Obama told them that he had an “inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story…” and explained how it hurt him as he tried to pass the Affordable Care Act. This insight and others are at the core of Dr. David […] The post What Fmr. President Obama Told Our Guests About His Big Health Care Misstep [https://www.mwmediagroup.org/2026/05/what-fmr-president-obama-told-our-guests-about-his-big-health-care-misstep/] appeared first on Healthy Communities Online [https://www.mwmediagroup.org].

The Nurse at the Laundromat: An Innovative Model

A nurse in a Baltimore laundromat might be testing one of the most important ideas in American health care: what if care started before you ever needed the emergency room? Organizations from NPR to the Milbank Memorial Fund are closely watching the Neighborhood Nursing program that the top-ranked Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has brought […] The post The Nurse at the Laundromat: An Innovative Model [https://www.mwmediagroup.org/2026/04/the-nurse-at-the-laundromat-an-innovative-model/] appeared first on Healthy Communities Online [https://www.mwmediagroup.org].

Kathleen Sebelius Ran HHS. Now, She’s Tackling Rural Health

Kathleen Sebelius was in charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services when the Affordable Care Act became law. Now, she and a bipartisan group are putting their best thinking forward for how to fix rural health care. Their report from Aspen Institute’s Health Strategy Group calls the rural mortality gap a “moral […] The post Kathleen Sebelius Ran HHS. Now, She’s Tackling Rural Health [https://www.mwmediagroup.org/2026/04/kathleen-sebelius-ran-hhs-now-shes-tackling-rural-health/] appeared first on Healthy Communities Online [https://www.mwmediagroup.org].

Why CNBC’s Becky Quick is Bullish on Rare Disease Cures: Her Family’s Story

Many viewers know Becky Quick as the steady voice on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” where she explains what’s happening on Wall Street and interviews the world’s top business leaders.  Now, she joins Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to share a very different story, one she lived privately for years while navigating her daughter’s rare genetic diagnosis. Quick’s […] The post Why CNBC’s Becky Quick is Bullish on Rare Disease Cures: Her Family’s Story [https://www.mwmediagroup.org/2026/04/why-cnbcs-becky-quick-is-bullish-on-rare-disease-cures-her-familys-story/] appeared first on Healthy Communities Online [https://www.mwmediagroup.org].