A health-care system emergency
ER doctor Thomas Fisher writes with moral clarity—and a whiff of hopelessness.
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Yet it’s holding tight to its life-saving information—and its record-breaking profits.
How deaths of despair reached white communities
Two economists tell the story and suggest reforms.
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
Louise Aronson calls for a health-care system that treats elders better
The medical community takes middle-age adulthood as the norm. What if it didn’t?
Why are rural white Americans willing to prioritize cultural whiteness above all else?
Jonathan Metzl offers useful data and analysis, if not much empathy.
Making work a prerequisite for benefits is costly, inefficient, and ineffective.
Taking away medical care for millions of Americans is not the right thing. Paying millions to politicians to ensure that healthcare will end for Americans is morally deplorable.
Caring for the sick means keeping them in our risk pool.
The morning after the House passed its health care bill, my daughter and I planted some seeds.
For no reason I can remember, I put the ’90s classic Four Weddings and a Funeral on my Netflix queue and re-watched it recently. The scene etched in my mind all these years was that of the funeral. John Hannah, with his beautiful Scottish accent, reads “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden. What the clip leaves off is the funeral officiant, presumably an Anglican priest, introducing the beloved partner of the man in the coffin as “his closest friend.”
The ACA is no longer just an idea. It is how millions of people access health care—and the Supreme Court stands poised to gut it.