Boston 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...
View ArticleBaffler: “Bill of Health”
I have an article in the new issue of the Baffler about what the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about the unjust and dysfunctional way we finance our nation’s hospitals — and why we need to change it. I...
View ArticleThinking Carefully About “Long COVID”
Several months ago, a newspaper columnist reached out to me after noticing a few of my tweets on a condition — “Long COVID” — then, as now, in the news. I’m a pulmonary and critical care physician,...
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