“Safety net hospitals” serve troubled communities like Chester in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Finance companies serve themselves.
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Posted inHealth Care
Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions
The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.
Posted inHealth Care
Fifty Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Black Health Care Continues to Lag
Since the AP’s landmark exposé on the health study, the gap between Black and white health care continues.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The VA Is Ripe for Right-Wing Attacks. Here’s How Biden Can Stop Them.
The president needs to appoint an undersecretary for health who can build on the revolution that remade the agency in the 1990s.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
Renewal in a West Virginia Coal Town
Inside the life of a rural hospital.
Posted inApril/May/June 2020, Health Care, Magazine
How Trump Could Take Away Obamacare With a Second Term
After packing the courts, the president’s use of executive authority will be more effective.
Posted inHealth Care, Political Animal
Conservatives’ Relaxed Attitude About the Pandemic Will Not Last
Studies show that conservatives are more attuned to threats, so why are they acting blasé about this pandemic?
Posted inPolitical Animal
Don’t Waste Your Time Arguing About Medicare for All
Given the structural challenges Democrats face in the Senate, it won’t happen.
Posted inPolitical Animal
In the Kentucky Governor’s Race, It’s Abortion vs Kitchen Table Issues
This is a contest that Mitch McConnell will be watching very closely.
Posted inPolitical Animal
I Hate to Admit the Moderates are Right About Medicare-for-All
If Sanders or Warren were to become president, they’d struggle to pass the plans proposed by Biden and Buttigieg and be accused of Leninism for even trying.
