Why can military medics provide complex care during military service yet struggle to use their experience in civilian hospitals? Joyce Strong, RN, explores Massachusetts' new Military to Medicine proposal and the larger problem of how American healthcare values credentials, competence, clinical experience, and professional authority.

We pay for the test, drug, device, procedure, and hospital bed. An RN and health coach explains why prevention is still a private luxury—and what a Health for Life system would do differently.

Americans are living longer, but healthy life expectancy has barely improved in more than two decades. Joyce Strong, RN, explores what lifespan and healthspan really mean, why prevention matters, and how we can protect our strength, independence, and quality of life as we age.