Roughly 12 percent of patients on U.S. transplant waiting lists die every year. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Health Care
Unhealthy Skepticism
How the media gets the story wrong on the Veterans Administration.
Trump Is Sabotaging a Veterans’ Health Care Law He Just Signed
After gleefully signing the VA Mission Act into law last week, Trump is now refusing to fund it.
Congress Is Poised to Push Veterans’ Health Care Closer to Privatization
The VA Mission Act sends more veterans into private health care without giving the VA the resources it so badly needs.
David Shulkin Failed Veterans Long Before His Travel Scandal
The secretary of veterans affairs, once a putative defender of government-provided veterans’ care, is no longer the hero he portrays himself to be.
Can Big Medicine Control Big Pharma? (Hint: the Answer Is ‘No’)
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.
Why Is the VA Hiding a PR Goldmine?
VA Secretary David Shulkin is suppressing his own book that highlights the agency’s success.
Trump’s Threat to Veterans’ Health Care
It would be a mistake to privatize America’s best-performing health care system.
Why the U.S. Responded Differently to the Opioid and Crack Cocaine Epidemics
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… Read more »
Nevada to Big Pharma: ‘Show Us Your Books!’
Working Nevadans finally scored a victory against big pharma. Will other states follow suit?
