New Orleans In this brave new world of medicine involving stem cells and gene therapy, all of which were almost unimaginable in the past, we still are hitting our heads against the wall at the inability to craft a solution to the old problem in the United States of equal access and affordability. Doctors are …
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Sickle-cell, Gene Fixes, and Health Justice
New Orleans Gene therapy is both the wave of the future and a huge ethical quandary of almost unimaginable complexity. A young Chinese doctor, who attracted international publicity by becoming the first to perform gene therapy in the womb on a set of twins to potentially provide immunity to a disease to which they …
Arkansas Playing Gotcha with the Poor to Cut Them Off of Medicaid
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/01_Johnny_Guitar_1536998415215958.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a sordid and shameful episode a few weeks ago Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson pridefully announced that the state had managed to bar 4300 people from health care support through Medicaid because of its new work requirement policies. Seema Verma the head of the federal …