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

Monday, October 25, 2021

Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting Entities, and other scams to transfer your money to insurance companies

In my post DTC Advertising on TV illustrates the corruption and inequity of the US medical care system (March 6, 2021) I talked a little ...

Friday, October 15, 2021

Public Health, Abortion and Childcare: US far behind other countries

On October 3, I wrote about the viciously restrictive Texas (anti-) abortion law, The Texas Abortion Law is contrary to women, to science, a...

Sunday, October 3, 2021

The Texas Abortion Law is contrary to women, to science, and to human values

The new Texas abortion law and the Supreme Court tacit endorsement of it is the latest (as of this writing – there will be more!) assault on...

Friday, September 17, 2021

Should hospitals and doctors make value judgements about who deserves treatment?

I heard on NPR’s “Here and Now” (Sept 9, 2021) that Jimmy Kimmel, the late night TV host, had expressed anger and frustration with peopl...

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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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