Subject: Health Policy & Insurance

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...

February 1, 2023

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 ...

September 26, 2022

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...

August 11, 2021

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...

July 30, 2021

Cultural, Health Policy & Insurance, Race

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...

July 15, 2021

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...

May 3, 2021

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...

March 27, 2021

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...

March 9, 2021

Ethics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Policy & Insurance, Public Health, Social Justice, Vaccines, Vulnerable Populations

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...

February 11, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Health Disparities, Health Policy & Insurance, Justice, Public Health, Social Justice, Vaccines, Vulnerable Populations

Deny Vaccination to Undocumented Immigrants? Who Might Benefit?

by Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD Another day, another headline to stoke fear in the minds and hearts of immigrants. This one di...

January 7, 2021

Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Politics

A Tale of Two Nations

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. It is hard to know what to write in the middle of another drawn out ballot counting election in ...

November 4, 2020

Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Politics

Election 2020: The Candidates on Health & Bioethics

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. During election years, I usually blog about any health and bioethics-related issues raised durin...

October 2, 2020

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