Healthcare policy, politics, and Medicaid
Medicaid has a critically important role within the expansion of healthcare as spelled out in the Patient Protection and Affordable…
Tag: healthcare - Part 4
An unbalanced, unfair system–a case study (N=1)
About six weeks ago, while in clinic, I developed pain in my stomach–specifically, in my right upper quadrant, just below…
How well do you know Grand Junction, Colorado?
Grand Junction, Colorado has important lessons to teach the country about healthcare. These lessons have very real and practical implications…
Creating a new “whole person” healthcare system
“Between April 2010 and March 2011, about 200 people across the state who were so mentally ill they posed a…
Healthcare and revolution – Who’s afraid of Cuba?
I’m tired of hearing about the next new revolutionary drug that’s going to change the face of medicine. I’m tired…
Should we occupy medical schools to effectively occupy healthcare?
A social media movement is happening before our eyes with action starting to take shape. The occupy healthcare movement has…
Why we need to Occupy Healthcare now
The CEO of WellPoint, the second largest health insurer in the US explained why so eloquently in a quote from…
Why social determinants of health matter, and how to take action
(Cross-posted in a slightly modified form at the Life in Underserved Medicine blog) Recently, my friend Carmen Gonzalez wrote a…
Land of the free, home of healthcare inequality
Every report of late confirms what we already know about health disparities: they are growing worse. A cursory view of…