Health Equity Can’t Wait – Kathleen Sebelius

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, wrote a blog posted in the Huffington Post this week, stating: April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise awareness about the well-documented health disparities that continue to affect racial...

To Heal, First Eat

“I want to help my patients not need my services,” Dr. Fox said as he chopped rosemary for a mustard-crusted seared lamb loin. “I’d love to be put out of work.” “This isn’t neurosurgery,” Dr. Eisenberg said as he whacked a garlic clove with the cleaver. “This is...

Second CO-OP to form in Oregon

Oregon will have two CO-OPs forming in Oregon, after news of federal loans awarded to Oregon’s Health CO-OP. Together with CCO’s and the Exchange, there is a lot brewing to transform how Oregonians access and purchase insurance and get better care, and...

Nature-Deficit Disorder

Timothy Egan, who writes “on American politics and life, as seen from the West,” has a great Opinionator piece in The New York Times this week. Here’s an excerpt: Something’s amiss. A third of all American adults — check, it just went up to 35.7...

Primer for Supreme Court Oral Arguments

For those who want to understand the different and varied legal questions argued before the Supreme Court this week, the NY Times put together a pretty good primer for taking a closer look at the constitutional questions that will be decided. It is complicated and...