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

Friday, October 3, 2025

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

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

Monday, September 22, 2025

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

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

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Drink more? Do more prostate cancer screening? I don't think so. But be careful about falls!

If the malignant lies and disinformation coming from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFKJr) and his minions, whom he regularly replace...

Friday, August 22, 2025

Making a profit isn't enough for Wall St.: You are going to have to pay, with your money (and maybe your life!)

Wendell Potter, in his “Health Care Un-Covered” substack, recently (Aug 6, 2025) reports that ‘As Americans Struggled, Health Insurers Mad...

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Josh Freeman: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little." -- FDR

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