Repealing Obamacare would massively increase the deficit.
health care
Posted inPolitical Animal
What Republicans Have Promised on Health Care Reform
Democrats have to hold them accountable for this.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Vulnerable Dems Can and Will Oppose Tom Price for HHS
The Rust Belt isn’t all red when it comes to health care.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care
Who Loses the Most If Obamacare Is Repealed?
Many Trump voters are going to be hugely affected.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Paul Ryan Is Lying About Medicare
Obamacare is keeping Medicare solvent, not making it go broke.
Posted inPolitical Animal
What Is/Isn’t Driving the Obamacare Premium Increases
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.
Posted inCover, Magazine, November/December 2016
Just the Medicine
How the next president can lower drug prices with the stroke of a pen.
Posted inPolitical Animal
We All Lose When We Ignore the Talents of the Disabled
Clinton just gave a speech devoted to more fully integrating those with disabilities into the nation’s economy.
Posted inMagazine
The Other AIDS Crisis
As the AIDS crisis demonstrates, when two major components of our health care system—the federal government and private insurers—flinch at high costs, the burden shifts to local public hospitals that are hindered by woefully inadequate funding and poor municipal planning.
Posted inMagazine
Let the Nurses Do It
A few months ago I spent a couple of days watching open-heart surgery being performed. The operating room was full of people: a supervising nurse, a scrub nurse, a few residents who just watched, and three surgeons doing the actual cutting and sewing. Besides all of them, there were two others. At the head of […]
