Affordable Healthcare

Will Healthcare Become a Moral Question? (Are we already there?)

By Jane Chin This morning I was skyping with one of my favorite people, Bhupesh of Ethnicomm, when we began talking about the current state of healthcare. Bhupesh lives in Canada, where healthcare is socialized in a way that has become apparently very attractive to various healthcare “activists” and interest groups here in the U.S. [...]

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Retail Clinics: Quick When You’re Sick

By Dan Abshear Recently in the media, issues have been addressed regarding the specialty of primary care or family practice doctors and the shortage of them in the U.S. In summary, reasons for the shortage that exists are due to the specialty not being that profitable for a doctor compared with other specialties. As a [...]

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Not Poor Enough or Not Sick Enough

Shirley Loewe had one of the most aggressive form of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer). Her tumor was already 4 inches wide when she was diagnosed in 2003. Adding insult to cancer, Shirley was repeatedly denied care because she was either “not poor enough” to qualify on Medicaid in Texas because she made $15,000 a [...]

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Backgrounder on Diabetes Drug Avandia Controversy

I’ve been tracking the various developments and commentaries on the controversy surrounding diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline). For those of you interested in background information and commentaries relating to the use of Avandia and increased risk for heart disease, as well as the affordability of chronic medications like diabetes drugs, I’ve compiled a [...]

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Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Law for Young People

I don’t know what your finances looked like when you were when you were 18 or in your early twenties, but I was a starving graduate student barely able to afford rent. If now I have to pay at least $100 each month on top of my expenses, I’d sink deeper into debt unless I [...]

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