The Nation: “Single Payer Is Actually a Huge Bargain”
Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, and I have a response to the Mercatus Center single-payer study, and the subsequent WaPo “fact check, up today at The Nation.
View ArticleTNR: “How Scientists Discovered Extra Steps in Evolution”
I reviewed David Quammen’s fascinating exploration of the discovery of “horizontal gene transfer” for the New Republic, and discuss its implication for so-called “three parent babies” conceived with...
View ArticleBlog: Physician Pay Under Single-Payer
A question that comes up in discussions of healthcare reform—and the transition to single-payer—is the potential savings via reductions in compensation for physicians’ labor. Some assert that the...
View ArticleThe Nation: “We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance”
Earlier this month, Sarah Kliff published an informative article at Vox on the ways that private health insurance has persevered in nations with universal coverage. On Monday, I had an article in The...
View ArticleFox Business News: Talking Medicare-for-All
I was a guest on the Fox Business News show “Bulls and Bears,” chatting Medicare-for-All.
View ArticleWe’re Failing Young People with Diabetes
Our study, comparing hospitalization rates for diabetic ketoacidosis in the US to Manitoba, Canada, was just published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. I have an op-ed up today on the...
View ArticleNew Study: Utilization Effects of the 1966 and 2014 Coverage Expansions
Last week, colleagues and I published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine based on analyses of large health surveys conducted around the time of the implementation of Medicare/Medicaid in 1966...
View ArticleVice: “Trump Is Scaring Immigrants Away from Healthcare Services to Help the...
I wrote about the Trump administration’s nasty “public charge” rule for VICE. In brief, it combines the administration’s xenophobia, anti-working class agenda, and regressive healthcare ideology into...
View ArticleBoston Review: “What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong”
I reviewed Uwe Reinhardt’s last book, discuss his influence, and chart broader changes in the health care debate over the least decade and a half — and talk about what that debate still gets wrong —...
View ArticleNew Study: Effects of the 1966 Medicare/Medicaid and the 2014 Affordable Care...
Our new study was published yesterday online in the American Journal of Public Health. We analyzed the effects of the 1966 Medicare/Medicaid and the 2014 Affordable Care Act coverage expansions on the...
View ArticleNew Study: The Effect of Large-scale Health Coverage Expansions in Wealthy...
Our third paper examining how universal coverage affects the society-wide use of healthcare — a question with big implications for predicting the cost of Medicare-for-All — was just published in the...
View ArticleNew Study in Health Affairs: "The Effect Of Veterans Health Administration...
Our new research was published in Health Affairs this week. Using national data, we found that patients with VA coverage – which provides medications with no or low copays to veterans – were less...
View ArticleDoctors "Prescribe" Medicare for All
Our open-letter—signed by more than 2,000 physicians—was published today as a full-page ad in the New York Times. Among the signatories of the letter, which was organized by PNHP, includes leading...
View ArticleHealth Affairs Blog: “Medicare for All: If Not Now, When?”
Medicare for All has significant advantages, many agree — but given the enormous political obstacles, shouldn’t we be focused on more moderate reforms? I respond to this critique in today’s Health...
View ArticleGuardian: “Trump sees the coronavirus as a threat to his self-interest – not...
I have an opinion piece in the Guardian about Trump’s horrendous response to the Covid-19 epidemic — and what underlies it.
View ArticleNew Paper: “COVID-19 and US Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities”
Along with David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, I have a new paper out today in the International Journal of Health Services exploring issues of health coverage, access, and financing related to...
View ArticleNew study: “18.2 Million Individuals at Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19...
We had a study published last week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, which found that some 18 million people who are at increased risk of severe COVID-19, whether because of age or chronic...
View ArticleNew Article: “US law enforcement crowd control tactics at anti-racism...
We had a correspondence piece in The Lancet citing tactics used by US law enforcement agencies as a public health threat on Friday. In brief: -Rubber bullets and related projectiles (bean bag rounds,...
View ArticleInterview: Democracy Journal
I have an interview in Democracy Journal today about the US public health response to COVID-19, the Medicare for All movement, the need to bring back “health planning,” the health consequences of law...
View ArticleDissent: “Bring Back Health Planning “
The new issue of Dissent has a special section on the COVID-19 pandemic, and I have a short essay in it arguing that we need to embrace the notion of “health planning,” which had its heyday in the...
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