New Orleans Spoiler alert. There is not a happy ending to this story without wide scale change in inequality. Turns out that not only is the wealth and income gap destroying our democracy and much of the social fabric of our lives and communities, but it is also breeding infectious diseases that leap past the …
Category: Health Care
Immunization and Other Public Health Shortages Reveal Weaknesses of Conservative Response
Little Rock A friend and comrade made the simple, but totally correct, observation that the weaknesses in the political positions from both the right and left, Democrats and Republicans, is that they were both arguing over insurance, when the American people only care about healthcare. Nowhere is this more obvious than when you consider the …
Discrimination in Health Care Delivery Kills
New Orleans These are the days when it seems that if it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all. Today’s examples emerge from the swamp where we should find our saviors, the health care delivery system, its doctor priests, and its industrial hospitals. More and more I don’t just hear the …