When healthcare is on the chopping block, everything is on the line. Just this morning, the Trump administration announced yet another plan to sabotage care: a move that would allow states to “cut costs” at the expense of Medicaid funding. This is their biggest overhaul of Medicaid yet. So when I happened to see Mike…
DetailsFormer Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made waves this week when he penned an op-ed in the Post with the headline, “Someone needs to say it: Medicare For All Is a Pipe Dream.” Of course, the truth is that plenty of people say it. It’s a well worn excuse we hear most often from for-profit insurance…
DetailsAs a fellow physician, I respectfully disagree with Dr. Vin Gupta’s analysis of the healthcare plans of Senator Elizabeth Warren and President Donald Trump in a recent opinion article on Think. As an emergency physician for over two decades, the major barrier to quality care for my patients is cost — like the mother with…
DetailsGreg Ip’s Wall Street Journal article about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All proposal (Nov. 6, 2019) takes a much needed look at the costs of healthcare in America. Respectfully, the piece overlooks some critical day-to-day realities many patients, their families and doctors like me encounter every day. In my emergency department, I sometimes find…
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