Jacobin: “Healthcare in the Age of Trump”
I wrote today about the implications of Trump’s election for health and healthcare for Jacobin.
View ArticleThe Hill: “Which way for Trump and progressives on pharmaceutical reform?”
I wrote about the implications of Trump’s election for Big Pharma — and how we should respond, for The Hill.
View ArticleNew Republic: “Congress Just Quietly Handed Drug Companies a Dangerous Victory”
I wrote about the 21st Century Cures Act for the New Republic.
View ArticleReal News Network Interview on Tom Price
Yesterday I did an interview with “Real News” to discuss nominee for HHS Secretary Tom Price’s appearance before the Senate HELP Committee.
View ArticleIn These Times:”Tom Price Is a Horrible Choice for Health Secretary”
My thoughts on our likely next Secretary of Health and Human Services, Georgia Congressman and physician Tom Price, for In These Times.
View ArticleJacobin: “Assessing Obama”
Jacobin has an article today assessing the legacy of the Obama administration from a Left perspective; I wrote the portion about his healthcare legacy.
View ArticleBody Count from ACA Repeal without real replacement, updated
Last November, I published a short post with rough estimates of the potential number of deaths per year that could result from a repeal of the ACA that was unaccompanied by a real replacement, and...
View ArticleNew Republic: “Does an Octopus Have an Inner Life?”
I reviewed Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness for the New Republic.
View ArticleFortune: “Why Trumpcare Will Only Make the Rich Richer”
I have an article about the House GOP reform bill for Fortune up this morning.
View ArticleGuardian: “Republicans call kicking millions off their healthcare ‘freedom’?...
I wrote about Paul Ryan, Trumpcare, and the meaning of healthcare “freedom” for the Guardian.
View ArticleBlog: Canada’s single payer system produces better outcomes for CF patients...
An important study was published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “Survival Comparison of Patients With Cystic Fibrosis in Canada and the United States,” by Anne L. Stephenson and...
View ArticleBMJ: “Should US doctors mourn for Obamacare?”
On the eve of the AHCA vote, me and Dr. Zackary Berger make the case against ACA repeal, in the British Medical Journal in a pro/con debate with Dr. Saurabh Jha.
View ArticleJacobin: “Five Lessons from Trumpcare’s Collapse”
Some brief thoughts on Trumpcare and single payer etc etc in Jacobin today.
View ArticleGuardian: “Trumpcare is dead. May it forever stay in its shallow grave.”
In this piece for the Guardian, I analyze the collapse of Trumpcare from the perspective of the right wing healthcare ethos (my Jacobin piece this morning looks at it from the perspective of the Left).
View ArticleBMJ Podcast: “American Healthcare – What Next?”
In a BMJ podcast online today, I debate Dr. Saurabh Jha on the future of US healthcare.
View ArticleThe Real News Network: “Is the US Ready for Universal Healthcare? This...
On “Real News” again, discussing prospects for single-payer in light of Trumpcare’s collapse.
View ArticleThe Katie Halper Show
Joined Katie Halper and Gabe Pacheco to chat about myths around Medicare-for-all and much more.
View ArticleLancet series: “America: equity and equality in health”
Yesterday, the Lancet published a new series “America: equity and equality in health.” It is available online for free (you need only to register on the site). In addition to the five papers (below),...
View ArticleThe Guardian: “Donald Trump’s homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and...
My latest for the Guardian US on the American Health Care Act. Who wins? Who loses? Where to next?
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