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Newsletter #2: The Single Payer Debate Continues
For now, I’ll keep posting my (brief) newsletters here. Apologies for those who come across it twice! You can signup for the newsletter here if interested: http://tinyletter.com/awgaffney ———————...
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Blog: Latest Results from the National Health Interview Survey
Uninsurance remains a problem in America, even in the age of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That’s one conclusion that can be drawn from the latest survey results released two weeks ago by the National...
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Blog: What Does the Medicare Rollout Say About Single Payer?
An interesting article today in Huffington Post by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein – both health policy scholars and co-founders of Physicians for a National Program – looks back at the...
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Blog: Contraception Coverage and the ACA
A “viewpoint” article published in JAMA this week (authored by March C. Politi, Adam Sonfield, and Tessa Madden) briefly summarizes how the Affordable Act Act (ACA) expands access to contraception, but...
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Time to Set the Record Straight on Single Payer
Recent weeks have seen a slew of misleading attacks on the affordability and merit of single payer health care. It’s time to set the record straight. Please see “Setting the Record Straight on...
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560+ Physicians and Medical Students Agree: Time to Move on Medicare-for-All
More than 560 doctors and med students have signed onto an open letter organized by the Ad Hoc Committee on Medicare-for-All, now published at The Huffington Post: The renewed debate over the merits...
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LA Review of Books: “Is the Path to Racial Health Equity Paved with...
I have a review/essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books today. It’s the second part of the “Politics of Health.” The first part mainly dealt with health inequalities by class, whereas this part...
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The New Republic: “How Liberals Tried to Kill the Dream of Single-Payer”
I have an article online today at The New Republic where I take on both the political and economic arguments being hurled at single-payer.
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Blog Post, St. Patrick’s Day Edition: What’s going on with universal health...
In recent years, several nations have announced bold plans for sweeping universal health care reform. One of these is India, which, as it has turned out, has done basically nothing to achieve that goal...
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The New Republic: “Google Knows Your Sick”
I have a review up today of Elad Yom-Tov’s interesting new book, Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do On the Internet Will Improve Medicine.
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Jacobin: “Saving the NHS”
I had an article in Jacobin today on the ongoing Junior Doctors strike in England, and its larger political meaning.
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Physicians’ Proposal for Single Payer
Yesterday was an important day for the single payer movement. We launched the “Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform” at a 1 PM press conference at the National Press Club in...
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Blog Post: What’s Wrong with Margot Sanger-Katz’s Single Payer Analysis
Yesterday, New York Times health care reporter Margot Sanger-Katz, whose work I very much respect, entered the debate on the costs of Sanders’ single payer plan in a piece I find problematic, headlined...
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The New Republic: “The Dawn of Antidepressants”
I have a review in the New Republic on Peter Kramer’s new book Ordinarily Well, on the essential question of whether antidepressants indeed work.
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Chest: “Should Pulmonary/ICU Physicians Support Single-payer Health-care...
I co-write an editorial with Phil Verhoef and Jesse Hall in which we make the case that intensivists and pulmonologists should support single payer. It’s available (for now) here:...
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Jacobin: “Obama on Obamacare”
Obama recently penned an assessment of the Affordable Care Act in JAMA; I wrote a response in Jacobin.
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Jacobin: “Socialize the EpiPen”
My thoughts on the background of the EpiPen mess and how to solve it, today in Jacobin.
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New Republic: “How ADHD Was Sold”
I reviewed Alan Schwarz’s new book ADHD Nation for the New Republic.
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If 22 million lose insurance, how many die?
Many commentators have noted that with the election of Trump to the presidency, the Republicans could very well go through with their promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or at least some...
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