With the 2020 election cycle already moving into high gear, we are hearing a lot about Medicare for all. But is it…
Public Health & Policy
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One of the most popular topics in health care is the idea of universal health care coverage. You know the soundbites: “Medicare…
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Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly…
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I often wonder what it was like before patient-centered care became a mainstream catchphrase. Was there a poor relationship between the patient…
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Jimmy McMillan might have been right. Mr. McMillan ran for mayor of New York City as the founder and candidate of the…
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More than two-thirds of Americans use social media, and 90 percent of adults in the U.S. have a cell phone. With these…
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For future physician-activists: This is our lane
by Jake Fox Alec Feuerbach and Jordan Rook March 12, 2019Rudolf Virchow, a pioneering physician of the 1800s, once wrote that “politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale”. Over a…
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Medicare for all and the problem of health care on demand
by Michael Brant-Zawadzki MD March 10, 2019The evolving politics of single-payer health care conflate the concepts of universal coverage, health care on demand and free health care. To…