In 2002, the Institute of Medicine published an oft-cited and controversial report entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. The report concluded that members of minority groups, even when fully insured, tend to receive substandard care from their doctors. It cited disparities in how often whites and minorities received even routine… Read more »
Health Care
Did Hurricane Sandy Save Obamacare?
How disaster relief justifies the welfare state.
No Place Like Home
An innovative foster care program for disabled vets points the way to solving two of the nation’s greatest challenges at the same time.
Obamacare
It’s toast.
Shovel-Ready Clinics
A job creation idea so obviously good even Washington couldn’t possibly say no… could it?
The Cure
The politics of debt have gotten so insane that both parties are on the verge of gutting Medicare. The moment might be right to actually fix it.
Sisyphus Gets to the Top
How America’s forbidding political landscape made health care reform impossible for Clinton and nearly so for Obama.
Friends Like These
Buried in Obamacare is a secret weapon to contain Medicare costs. Meet the group of House Democrats who want to destroy it.
First Do No Harm
Last year there wasn’t a single fatal airline accident in the developed world. So why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency.
