Featured, Health Care

Congress Is Poised to Push Veterans’ Health Care Closer to Privatization

by Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven May 22, 2018January 9, 2022

The VA Mission Act sends more veterans into private health care without giving the VA the resources it so badly needs.

Featured, Health Care

David Shulkin Failed Veterans Long Before His Travel Scandal

by Suzanne Gordon February 21, 2018January 9, 2022

The secretary of veterans affairs, once a putative defender of government-provided veterans’ care, is no longer the hero he portrays himself to be.

Featured, Health Care

Can Big Medicine Control Big Pharma? (Hint: the Answer Is ‘No’)

by Phillip Longman January 25, 2018January 9, 2022

Four giant health care systems are joining forces to produce generic drugs at a lower cost to themselves. But, that doesn’t mean the savings will be passed on to consumers.

Featured, Health Care

Why Is the VA Hiding a PR Goldmine?

by Suzanne Gordon December 8, 2017January 9, 2022

VA Secretary David Shulkin is suppressing his own book that highlights the agency’s success.

Featured, Health Care

Trump’s Threat to Veterans’ Health Care

by Suzanne Gordon and Phillip Longman November 10, 2017January 9, 2022

It would be a mistake to privatize America’s best-performing health care system.

Health Care, Law and Justice

Why the U.S. Responded Differently to the Opioid and Crack Cocaine Epidemics

by Keith Humphreys July 13, 2017January 9, 2022

Professor Ekow Yankah and I were interviewed on Detroit Today by Stephen Henderson. The subject was why the country took a different approach to the current opioid epidemic than it did to the crack cocaine epidemic. You can listen to the show here. This is a brief summary of my own analysis of why we […]