Each and every one of us–including our physicians–has a particular perspective through which we see the world. Consequently, we often jump to conclusions—about people, information...
Diane Archer
Medicare for All addresses racial injustice
Our health care system disproportionately hurts people of color. African Americans and Latinx, in particular, struggle to get access to affordable health care. Corporate health insurers can’t...
How older adults can best protect themselves from the coronavirus
Everywhere you turn, it seems there’s news about the coronavirus (Covid-19). It is spreading across the world, and now in the US, at a seemingly rapid clip. Never leaving your home and closing...
Medicare for all would save 68,000 lives a year
New research by Yale Professor Alison P. Galvani et al., published in The Lancet, concludes that Medicare for All could guarantee health care for everyone in the US at far less overall cost than we...
President Trump’s 2021 proposed budget would most hurt...
Monique Morrissey writes for the EPI blog about President Trump’s proposed 2021 budget. Morrissey explains that this White House budget would hurt vulnerable older adults, even though it claims...
Caring for multiple chronic conditions need not be so complicated
Managing multiple chronic conditions can be as complicated as living with them. If you have multiple chronic conditions—conditions that are long-lasting and require medical attention—talk to your...
John Oliver explains why we need Medicare for all
In Last Week Tonight, John Oliver explains why moving from our multi-payer health care system to a single-payer system–one in which the federal government pays our health care bills–would...
Plan ahead for a hospital visit: Talk to the people you love...
Few of us think about preparing in advance for a hospital visit, for someone we love, let alone ourselves. But, eventually, most of us will make a visit as a caregiver or a patient. Talking to the...
Nine takeaways for the US from other health care systems
Dylan Scott at Vox traveled to Taiwan, Australia and the Netherlands to gain a better understanding of their health care systems and how they differ from ours. Here are his nine takeaways. 1. The US...
Near consensus among researchers that Medicare for All saves...
Christopher Cai and colleagues at three University of California campuses examine the projected cost impact for single-payer health insurance in the US in a recent paper in PLOS Medicine. They found...