Scenes From the Ragged Edge of American Health Care
At a Remote Area Medical clinic outside the nation's capital, doctors treat those who have fallen through the cracks in the system.
Health Care
The New Behemoths of Health Care Bureaucracy
Some of America's biggest companies are middlemen who profit from the system's wastefulness.
The Media’s Disingenuous Narrative About Medicare for All
The end of Kamala Harris's campaign is being blamed on her flirtations with single-payer. Don't be so sure.
The Lucrative Liberal Business of Killing Health Care Reform
New tax filings show what soulless K Street hucksters—including Obama alumni—are willing to do for a buck.
Elizabeth Warren Retreats From Medicare for All
Her plan to pass a public option before pivoting to single-payer is too clever for its own good.
Single-Payer Advocates Are Being Drawn Into the Wrong Debate
Warren's plan to pay for Medicare for All has sparked a conversation over how much we spend on health care, instead of how well we spend it.
Ady Barkan Is Running Out of Time to Speak
As his ALS intensifies, the prominent single-payer activist is finding new ways to influence the politics of health care.
Trump, Blackface, and Guns
Why Virginia’s off-off-year elections bode ill for the GOP in 2020.
The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Big Pharma has a long and checkered history deploying racist and xenophobic tropes to protect their profits.
The Missing Piece in Democrats’ Health Care Plans
They don't talk about the massive ways health care and climate change intersect.
Joe Biden’s Individual Mandate Madness
The former vice president wants to bring back the least popular part of the Affordable Care Act and no one seems to want to ask why.
The Public Option Bait and Switch
The health care plans competing against Medicare for All are benefiting from a lack of scrutiny.
Warren’s Medicare-for-All Dodge Is Wearing Thin
It's a mystery why the Massachusetts senator won't plainly state the truth about single-payer health care.
The Grim Lottery of Surprise Medical Bill Stories
Journalists can occasionally help the victims of the health care industry's predations, but without major reform these abuses will continue.
The Plot Against Medicare for All
The political establishment rediscovers the benefit of Red-baiting and xenophobia to preserve the health care industry's buckrakers.
Health Care Policy Is Always a Human Interest Story
It does your readers no good to keep them at a remove from the partisan politics that built this calamitous system.
The Fetishization of Employer-Provided Health Care
Democrats continue to entrench their support for a health care system in which class warfare is a pre-existing condition.
Democrats’ Drug Price Bill May Be Dead on Arrival
After a nine month effort to produce a bill that Trump might support, it looks like Nancy Pelosi outfoxed herself.
Pete Buttigieg’s Health Care Plan Is the Worst Yet
Short on details and long on naïvete, the South Bend mayor aims to leave the status quo unruffled.
The Pragmatic Roots of Biden’s Incoherence
The former vice president is a dealmaker, not a deep thinker.
