Picture this: Hundreds of family physicians and future family physicians arriving on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to share the top challenges they face and to ask their leaders to make a purposeful investment in primary care. They’ve earned the …
Category: Policy
Breaking down barriers: Illinois bill calls for cultural competency training for physicians to improve health care for LGBTQ+ community
Illinois HB 4654 is a bill requiring physicians to undergo cultural competency training focusing on caring for patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and two-spirit LGBTQ2S+, or questioning LGBTQ+. This training is critical for …
Breaking the cycle of racism in health care: a call for anti-racist action
May 25th marks the anniversary of the brutal murder of George Floyd. I remember feeling numb when I first heard the news. Then, some days later, the tears filled my eyes, then came my anger. It is frustrating that we still live in a world filled with s…
Will Senate Hearing Expose PBMs’ Unscrupulous Drug Pricing Tactics?
PBMs have unscrupulously created an opaque drug pricing system that has yielded riches for them — at the expense of patients and drug companies.
Small-Molecule Price Controls Are A Big Mistake
The Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price controls may be popular. But by discouraging companies from investing in innovative, accessible drugs, they’ll harm current and future patients in need of effective therapies.
The growing threat to transgender health care: implications for patients, providers, and trainees
The ACLU is currently tracking over 400 anti-LGBTQ bills this legislative session, the highest number on record. Over 150 of these pertain to transgender people, including many targeting health care for transgender youth. As of April 2023, thirteen sta…
Here’s how to fix the public health system in the U.S.
Today, the current health care ecosystem is broken and in need of an overhaul. To start, this country’s high cost of health care is not sustainable, preventing millions of Americans from accessing important health care services. The recent ruling…
Poverty: America’s disease with devastating consequences
I need to tell you about John (not his real name). He is a Cameroonian immigrant who came to the U.S. on a student visa. He waited tables in a popular pub in downtown Houston to earn a little change and support himself through school. Hardworking, cour…
Don’t Expect Life Expectancy To Explain American Health Care
The American healthcare system outperforms the government-dominated systems of comparable countries on any meaningful metric. Simply put, there’s no better place to get sick than the United States.
America’s ailing health care system: How it’s failing patients and doctors
As painfully revealed by the coronavirus pandemic, the American health care system is ailing, plagued by the inefficiencies and greed of big business and for-profit medicine. It is not unlike the virus, attacking vital organs one by one until the who…
