The Public Option Bait and Switch
The health care plans competing against Medicare for All are benefiting from a lack of scrutiny.
Health Care
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.
Joe Biden Doesn’t Seem to Understand Health Care
The Democratic debate reveals that the vice president has only a shaky grasp on his competitors' plans—as well as his own.
How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor
The most vulnerable Americans are being dunned into destitution through surprise fees and fraudulent practices.
The Scourge of Worker Wellness Programs
Employers have become obsessed with improving the health of their employees. But does it do anyone any good?
Status Quo Joe
Biden seems to believe that everything in America was rosy until Trump took office, and he's offering himself as a time machine.
Is Josh Hawley For Real?
How the junior senator from Missouri has become the face of the post-liberal movement—and positioned himself as the philosophical heir to Trump.
Biden’s Pitch to Voters: Dream Small
Running as the inheritor of Obama's legacy, the former vice president offers a health care plan that lacks audacity and offers little hope.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Joe Biden hoped to guard his frontrunner status and stay above the 2020 campaign fray. Now he'll have to run to keep up with the pack.
Lila Savage’s Say Say Say Is a Breakthrough in Women’s Fiction
A debut novel explores self-care through the mind of a caregiver.
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Fight the Opioid Crisis. Why Don’t Other Democrats?
The 2020 hopeful connected the dots between drug addiction and corporate greed, and "Trump country" took notice.
Big Pharma Is Pushing a Big Lie
People are dying because they can't afford necessary medications, but drug manufacturers say they need high prices to fund future breakthroughs.
A Watered-Down Medicare for All Won’t Work. Just Ask Ireland.
Democratic candidates are moving away from Bernie Sanders's plan, but moderate health reform would create a crisis of care.
