What Glenn Youngkin’s appointment of Daniel Gade reveals about the GOP’s real attitude toward returning soldiers.
Health Care
Reporting and expert analysis on health care in America: costs, coverage, quality, and the reforms that could make the system work for patients.
Posted inHealth Care
It’s Time to Send Every American Free At-Home COVID Tests
The government was able to mail us all a check. Surely, it can figure this out.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
No, Negotiating for Lower Drug Prices Won’t Hurt Innovation or Seniors
The Build Back Better bill gives Medicare the power to buy drugs cheaply. No wonder Big Pharma is trying to smear it.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
Renewal in a West Virginia Coal Town
Inside the life of a rural hospital.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
That Wildly Expensive New Alzheimer’s Drug Needs Serious Testing
Why Biogen’s medication, aducanumab, should get studied through an important part of the Affordable Care Act, the Patient Centers Outcomes Research Institute.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
The All-Payer Pricing Alternative
Public option proponents face huge political hurdles; there is another way to achieve many of the same goals.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
As FDA Readies Menthol Cigarette Ban, What’s Next?
Public health agencies need to make menthol smokers, Black and white, aware of safer alternatives. Anything less isn’t social justice.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
Biden’s Pivot on Drug Price Controls
The president abandons the long-held view that innovation requires high prices.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19
Poorly paid direct care workers with multiple jobs who can’t afford sick leave spread the pandemic to the most vulnerable. Here’s how we can do better.
