Yes for some, no for others -- but affordability wasn't the law's only goal.By F. Perry Wilson, M.D., M.S.C.E.MedPage Today, Jan. 22, 2018By F. Perry
The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.By Vann R. Newkirk
Three ways to cut — and improve — Medicare
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.STAT, Jan. 17, 2018The Republicans are right. We should cut Medicare. And I know how: Keep Medicare’s funding for actual health care
Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
The US is the most expensive nation in the world in which to have a baby – and it may factor into thousands of bankruptcies
The true problem and solution to high drug prices
By Elizabeth CarsonThe Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018By Elizabeth Carson | The Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018
The Jan. 3 Economy & Business article “Under fire,
Trump is right: Negotiate for lower drug prices
By Rob Stone, M.D., Chris Stack, M.D., and Fran QuigleyIndianapolis Star, Jan. 4, 2018All Hoosiers have seen the headlines about drug price increases, and too
The Leap to Single-Payer: What Taiwan Can Teach
How one nation transformed a health care system. Can America do big things anymore?By Aaron E. Carroll and Austin FraktNew York Times, December 26, 2017Taiwan
The Single-Payer Healthcare Debate Revisited
Interview with Robert Kiefner, M.D.The Exchange, NHPR, December 13, 2017With uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act's future, and Congressional inaction on an alternative, some lawmakers
The Feminist Case For Single Payer
It's time to take health care away from the power of bosses and spouses.By Natalie ShureJacobin, December 8, 2017In the spring of 1969, a dozen
We Are Here to Help All the Lindas
By Brad Cotton, M.D.Emergency Medicine News, December 2017Linda couldn't afford the gallbladder ultrasound her hometown doc recommended. Six months later, she is in my ED.
Single-payer health care gains traction, local physician advocates
By Amanda Zhou and Kris B. MamulaPittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 23, 2017When Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan., introduced a bill in Congress in 2015 that would create
Single-Payer: A Reproductive Justice Value
By Katie KlabusichTruthout, November 17, 2017By Katie Klabusich | Truthout, November 17, 2017
The reproductive justice movement focuses on expanding the ability of all people to