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Medical care

Riding the Night

All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

Pain Quotidien

From a list of approximately 70,000 diagnostic codes included in the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification, which was adopted by U.S. health-care providers in October.

Wrong Prescription?

by Trudy Lieberman,

The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act

Fill In the Gap

by Maria Bustillos,

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act in June of 2012, the decision was widely viewed as a victory for President Obama and a…

Untitled

by Horace Nicholls,

Fulsome Prison

by Danny Hembree,

From a letter sent in January to the Gaston Gazette, a North Carolina newspaper, by Danny Hembree, a fifty-year-old death-row inmate at Raleigh’s Central Prison. Hembree was found guilty last…

The one in front of you

by Sallie Tisdale,

A consideration of charity

How the Other Half Heals

by Teri Reynolds,

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

Sick in the Head

by Luke Mitchell,

Why America won't get the health-care system it needs

Some days you can shoot them

by Paul Rodriguez, Trish Wood,