By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; David Himmelstein, M.D.; and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Health Affairs Blog, February 16, 2021

For the first time in a quarter century,

February 15, 2021

James McGee, recently retired from the Transit Employees' Health & Welfare Fund, discusses the lofty goals of single-payer reform, and the challenge posed

By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Salon, February 11, 2021

Over the past year, COVID-19 has inundated the ICU where I work. Death and suffering have become the

By Amanda Holpuch
The Guardian, February 11, 2021
The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the

By Ken Alltucker
USA TODAY, February 11, 2021

About 40% of the nation’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if the United States’ average death rate matched

By Abdul El-Sayed, M.D. and Micah Johnson, M.D.
CNN Business Perspectives, February 11, 2021

While the pandemic has put immense stress on nearly every country's health care

By David Goldberg, M.D.
AMA Journal of Ethics, Medicine and Society, February 2021
Abstract
The American Diabetes Association 2020 Standards of Care for the treatment of hyperglycemia in

February 1, 2021

Registered Nurse and Dane County (Wisc.) Board Supervisor Holly Hatcher discusses her effort to pass a local resolution in support of federal single-payer

January 26, 2021

Have health economists been underestimating supply-side constraints when making predictions regarding cost and utilization for universal health coverage programs, such as Medicare For

By Jay D. Brock, M.D.
The Washington Post, January 15, 2021
Most Americans understand that our health insurance system — the financial basis of our entire health-care