Medicine and Social Justice

My book, "Health, Medicine and Justice: Designing a fair and equitable healthcare system", is out and and widely available! Medicine and Social Justice will have periodic postings of my comments on issues related to, well, Medicine, and Social Justice, and Medicine and Social Justice. It will also look at Health, Workforce, health systems, and some national and global priorities

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Does AI communicate better than real doctors? If so, why is that?

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The New York Times recently ran an article titled “ Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t” , which should be ve...

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Mamdani, universal health coverage, and the scandal of profits over healthcare

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First, let me offer congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and the people of New York who elected him. While the news focus is on him, and of cou...

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Medicare re-enrollment: Time to consider being dissatisfied with a new plan!

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It is Medicare re-enrollment season again. It began Oct 15 and runs through the end of the year. This is when, if you are dissatisfied with ...

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Friday, October 3, 2025

The greatest quality deficit? Physically destroying the health care system, and, oh yeah, the people it is supposed to serve

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I have previously quoted from the important JAMA paper by Schiff, Bindman, and Brennan “A Better Quality Alternative: Single Payer Nationa...

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Monday, September 22, 2025

The WiSER program to erode your Medicare coverage: Not WISE for you!

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While much about American health insurance is infuriating, starting with it treating the healthcare system as a vehicle for making money r...

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