New Orleans Dr. Alister Martin is New York City’s health commissioner, and he’s a hero of the people in my book. Even better, he’s singing our song and doing so loudly and clearly, when it comes to keeping people on Medicaid against the Trump and Republican assault of the big bad budget bill …
Category: Health Care
The Long Shadow of Hansen’s Disease
New Orleans Over Christmas, an obituary ran in the Wall Street Journal for an unusual doctor, named William Levis, who died in his sleep at 86, having seen patients during the last week of his life. All that was interesting enough, but what caught my attention was the fact that he ran the …
Reducing Health Care Costs
New Orleans These days a new year means a notice from your health insurer, if you have one, both private and public, of the amount of the increase in premiums or deductions from your Social Security checks. With the Trump budget bill it will also mean changes coming in the amount of subsidies …


