Last winter, when the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) was declared “dead” after Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia revealed that he would not support it, health care reform advocates were disappointed. Hopes that important legislation would …
Category: Public Health & Policy
The why doesn’t matter: Highland Park
Hatred doesn’t have to have a motive. Hatred does because hatred can. Hatred can disguise itself as a man dressed as a woman. Hatred does because hatred can. Hatred can get guns and weapons and kill innocent people celebrating their freedom on Ju…
American health care: the best of times and the worst of times
An excerpt from Healthcare Upside Down: A Critical Examination of Policy and Practice. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of …
Melting the iron triangle: Health equity in innovative health care landscapes [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “While the technological boom in the health care field is not a circumstance of the pandemic, the accelerated roll-out and adoption of digital features certainly are. And rapid innova…
How the culture of health care perpetuates racism [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Many health care professionals go into health care to help people, no matter their race, socioeconomic status, or other identities. Even as white health care professionals start to l…
On the boundaries of medicine, medical education, and political passion
On July 25, 2022, dozens of medical students at the University of Michigan School of Medicine walked out of the school’s White Coat Ceremony when the keynote speaker, Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine, approached the podium….
Ayman al-Zawahri: the doctor who dispensed death
On May 2, 2011, a few minutes past 1 a.m. Pakistan Standard Time, a U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six left the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan and headed for the compound of a high-value target in Abbottabad, Pakistan, located just a few mi…
A health economist acknowledges how financing experiments failed our health system
I read a superb commentary in STAT, “Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out,” that reviews the failures of “value-based care” and the failure of its promoters to acknowledge those failures. Ideas conc…
A medical student’s advocacy journey [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “As I looked across the boxes on my screen, I saw the gleaming faces of my peers. Just as it did then, and as it has for countless of my peers since, involvement in the Student Osteop…
Melting the iron triangle: prioritizing health equity in dynamic, innovative health care landscapes
As a master of health administration (MHA) student completing my administrative residency in the health technology industry, I chose to dedicate my capstone project to a topic positioned at the intersection of what I had learned in graduate school and …
