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Comments in Vox on the Sen. Brian Schatz’s Medicaid-based “Public Option”
Yesterday, Vox’s Sarah Kliff and Jeff Stein described Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) new Medicaid buy-in proposal, based on an exclusive interview. As they wrote: In an interview with Vox, Schatz revealed...
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Washington Post: “Single-payer won’t pass now. But its popularity proves our...
I have a piece in the Washington Post today about why single-payer matters.
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Washington Post: My Take on Semiautomatics
I wrote about semiautomatic firearms in the Washington Post today.
View ArticleNew Republic: “The History of Putting a Price on Everything”
I reviewed Eli Cook’s new book, The Pricing of Progress.
View ArticlePoint-Counterpoint in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
I have a point-counterpoint in the new issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, dealing with the question of what road we should be taking to get to universal coverage. Dana Goldman, the...
View ArticleGuardian: “The West Virginia teachers’ strike is over. But the fight for...
I have a piece in the Guardian, up today, on the West Virginia teachers’ strike — and its implications for workers’ healthcare.
View ArticleGuardian: “The US is entering a golden age of corporate medicine”
I wrote about the growing corporatization of healthcare in this piece in the Guardian, published Sunday.
View ArticleCrooked Conversation: “Can We Have Medicare for All”
I recently joined Andy Slavitt and Jon Favreau on Crooked Conversation for a discussion on the healthcare debate and the way forward to Medicare-for-All.
View ArticleBMJ: “Healing an Ailing Pharmaceutical System”
Our comprehensive drug reform proposal, “Healing an Ailing Pharmaceutical System,”was published today in the British Medical Journal. The proposal comes from the US/Canadian Pharmaceutical Working...
View ArticleWashington Post: “Trump’s plan won’t lower prescription drug prices. Ours...
I wrote a tl; dr on our drug proposal published last week in BMJ for PostEverything.
View ArticleBlog post: What do utilization increases actually mean?
Single-payer cost estimates are in the news this week. A key issue in estimating the cost of single-payer is how it will increase healthcare utilization. Increased utilization, it’s worth pointing...
View ArticleHealthcare writings by topic
Not that anybody was asking for it, but I organized my healthcare writing in the last few years by topic for those new to healthcare activism looking for some background reading (obviously there’s much...
View ArticleThe 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...
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