MAHA Proves Health Reform Doesn’t Need Red Tape

MAHA proves health reform doesn’t need red tape

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Mehmet Oz — now leading the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, respectively — touted a rare policy win: getting major beverage companies to agree to phase out harmful artificial dyes by 2027. And they didn’t do it through regulation, but by cooperation with the private sector. Call it the art of the deal, applied to public health. “We can …

The rise, fall and return of Maha - Flatwater Free Press

A month before the return of the big event, the founders of the Maha Music Festival debated its future over drinks in the private-ish front room of Pageturners Lounge in Omaha’s Dundee neighborhood.  “We want this year to be successful,” said Tre Brashear while balancing a cocktail on a second-hand sofa’s armrest. “We want Maha to be reborn. But I do worry if just conceptually, the small, nonprofit local festival model doesn’t work as a ticketed…

Cooperation Is the Key to MAHA

Working with industry will get us there faster than blunt-force regulation.