The fix isn’t more money; it’s a flashlight By Samuel S. Kim There is a file somewhere in the Department of Public Health and Social Services. Or there was. When auditors went looking for it—hunting for documentation behind hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid payments—they found boxes that had been “relocated to storage,” databases nobody had updated in years, signatures that simply were not there. No drama. No villain. Just a government that had stopped keeping track

I’m not going to tiptoe around semantics. America is at war. When missiles fly and civilians die, it’s a war. 

As a lawyer and a physician, we have publicly and privately sparred over the best way to advance healthcare on this island. Our disagreements have even been documented in the halls of the legislature. However, we agree on one thing. Guam is suffering a shortage of essential professionals, and a portion of this problem is self-inflicted. The government of Guam sidelines the private sector, treating it as inferior.