Lessons I Learned from Dr. Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer–a physician, medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners in Health,...
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Tag: health care
The Conversation on How Not to Die
In this month’s Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch profiles Dr. Angelo Volandes’ work to change the way Americans approach death. After realizing that most people facing end of life decisions did not really understand what...
Read MoreRyan VP Pick Signals the End of the Seinfeld Election
It was beginning to look like an election about nothing, but with the selection of Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has made sure that this election will finally be about something. And that something...
Read MoreOn Health Care: The Supreme Court and Subsidiarity (UPDATED)
By a narrow 5-4 majority, the Supreme Court today upheld the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The New York Times headline, “Health Law Stands” is likely to receive the bulk of the coverage. The decision hinged on...
Read MoreCanada to Ration Health Care Away From Refugees
This headline has to be mistake, right? After all, as an article in the Montreal Gazette reminds us, it is conventional wisdom that Canada is “more compassionate than its rough-and-tumble neighbour to the south.” ...
Read MoreThe Mandate: Three Lessons So Far
Word that the bishops are rejecting the Obama administration compromise on the HHS mandate means further conversations. DotCommonweal has a great update, but the comment thread made me think that before we Catholics devolve into...
Read MoreTechnology is the Future! Oh, wait…
Two institutions that have been in the hot seat since the start of the recession are health care and education. Both have out-of-control costs, with comparatively very little to show for those costs, making them targets of...
Read MoreThe Epidemiological Insight and Infant Mortality
Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist and founder of Partners in Health, identifies what he calls the epidemiological insight – diseases make a preferential option for the poor; thus, healthcare workers must as well....
Read MorePaul Ryan and Rationing Health Care
I actually think Paul Ryan is to be commended. If he was simply worried about being reelected in Wisconsin’s fairly liberal 1st district (a democrat represented it from 1971 through 1995) he might not be proposing plans...
Read MoreRationing Dialysis
Unless you are one of the nation’s 400,000 dialysis patients, you may not know that a law passed by Congress 39 years ago provides almost entirely free dialysis to patients whose kidneys have failed, regardless of age or...
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