By Lyndonna Marrast, M.D., and Danny McCormick, M.D., M.P.H.KevinMD.com, Feb. 22, 2014The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase insurance coverage for the poor, uninsured and
Life and health will suffer in states opting out of the Medicaid expansion
By Samuel L. DickmanScholars Strategy Network, Feb. 24, 2014By Samuel L. Dickman | Scholars Strategy Network
Will this coverage gap for so many low-income Americans have
Doctor favors a single-payer health care system
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.The Lawton (Okla.) Constitution, Feb. 2, 2014 I am a proudly patriotic, fiscally prudent, family physician. For those three reasons, I support a
The ‘no free health care’ tax
We all pay when the āundeservingā have to grovel for treatmentBy Philip Caper, M.D.Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Feb. 20, 2014How much tax would you be
A Crusader on What Ails Artists
By Ben SisarioThe New York Times, February 18, 2014 PITTSBURGH ā Beer bottles clinked and indie-rock classics played overhead at a gallery opening here on
The French way of cancer treatment
By Anya SchiffrinReuters, February 12, 2014When my father, the editor and writer Andre Schiffrin, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer last spring, my family
Apprehensive, Many Doctors Shift to Jobs With Salaries
By Elisabeth RosenthalThe New York Times, February 13, 2014American physicians, worried about changes in the health care market, are streaming into salaried jobs with hospitals.
Sunday Dialogue: Medicine as a Business
The New York Times, February 10, 2014The New York Times
The heart of the doctor is the soul of medicine. Historically the doctor-patient relationship has earned
Million-Dollar Babies Should Have Been Non-Issue for AOL
By Maggie FoxNBC News, February 10, 2014By Maggie Fox | NBC News
Tim Armstrong has had to apologize twice now for his announcement last year saying
Health care systems should not be run for profit, but rather for people’s health
By Joshua Freeman, M.D. Medicine and Social Justice blog, Feb. 2, 2014By Joshua Freeman, M.D. | Medicine and Social Justice blog
I wrote in a recent
Health care: Adverse selection
By Henry J. Waters IIIColumbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Jan. 29, 2014Much is being made by opponents of the Affordable Care Act of adverse selection, the
Single Payer Rises Again
By Sarah JaffeIn These Times, February 3, 2014As the ACA takes effect, an alternative gains ground at the state levelBy Sarah Jaffe | In These
