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A story about our broken health care system.

We have a broken health care system. People can’t get the help they need, and the broken parts don’t communicate with each other – as witness this story. A woman, married and with a child, got pregnant. Her family’s income…

We need comprehensive health care for all

Our health care system is so broken that people who desperately need medical help may not be able to get it. My blogging here has bee a bit irregular lately. That’s because we’ve been preparing for my wife Sue to have cornea transplant surgery.…

Health care: sparrows and cardboard boxes

Several years ago I sat next to a Frenchman on a flight from Paris to Washington DC. He stated that his country considered access to health care a human right and asked why my country didn’t provide it to its…

Specialty MDs turn away most children with public insurance

Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor’s appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and private insurance were turned away only 11 percent of the time,…