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, 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!)

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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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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Medicare and Medicaid at 60: Need more -- and more threatened -- than at 50!

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Ten years ago, on August 2, 2015, I posted Medicare and Medicaid at 50: Time to include “US” all on the 50 th anniversary of Medicare and ...

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Friday, July 25, 2025

Recalling an old post: Le Havre and not paying for health care -- in France

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Sometimes I think about old posts, and how sad it is that things have not changed in the years since I wrote them. But, as with this one, fr...

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Pay primary care more: Kennedy may be getting this one right!

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I have recently written strong criticisms of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his positions on a number of ...

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

The growth of the healthcare sector in the economy is not matched by an increase in health

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Healthcare is a big industry in the US. Really big. Per a recent NY Times article , it is the largest employer in the nation, its growth ...

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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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