Gun violence, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance
Guns, Insurance, and the Political Determinants of Health
In the United States, where gun controls are far too few and unchecked guns are generally okay, even celebrated, such po...
Subject: Health Policy & Insurance
Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Public Health
Death of a Healthcare CEO: Physical Violence, Structural Violence and Social (In)justice
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results ...
The Medicaid Dilemma
The ongoing struggle on how to best serve patient populations who utilize coverage offered through the Centers for Medic...
Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law
Will There Ever Be a Right to Health in the U.S.?
Interacting with the American healthcare system often results in a familiar scenario for many families. A doctor prescri...
Health Policy & Insurance, Justice
The Misguided Conversation around Medical Crowdfunding
Heartbreak. Outrage. Urgency. These emotions describe what 22,292 people may have felt over five days in 2019 when they ...
Conflict of Interest, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Philosophy & Ethics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: John Stuart Mill and Mandates
By Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD John Stuart Mill proclaimed, “Over himself, over his own body and mi...
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Health Disparities, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics...
Dying of Inequality and Republicanness: Questioning Metzl on Whiteness
by G.M. Trujillo, Jr., Ph.D. Critics and academics laud Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness. But unlike many academic wo...
COVID-19 pandemic, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Vaccines
Vaccine Passports: Alleviate Stranger Danger!
by Brian M Cummings M.D. and John J. Paris S.J. Vaccine passports a...
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Cultural, Ethics, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, HIV/AIDS, Politics, Public Health
Immortal Surgeon General: C. Everett Koop, 40 years on
By Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, MBA The remarkable impact on America of bearded, Presbyterian social conservative C. Eve...
Ethics, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Politics
Resurrecting the Presidential Commission For The Study of Bioethical Issues With Public En...
by Naomi Scheinerman, PhD The Biden-Harris Administration has a wonderful opportunity, particularly amidst a pandemic in...
Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and American Healthcare
by Susan L. Smith, PhD On either side of our country’s northern border, outrage is brewing about the rich getting priori...