Something happened in my family recently that I had not expected. As a member of the sandwich generation, we know… Read more
Category: Healthcare
The Sound of the Siren
Your phone buzzes before the sky changes color. A cone graphic appears on television, tracking a spiral mass across warm… Read more
What We Quietly Teach Ourselves
There is a phrase that lands differently depending on where you sit in the American political conversation. Say “social engineering”… Read more
Why Transparency Works and Authority Fights It
The story begins, as so many stories do these days, with something that seemed purely technical and ended somewhere much… Read more
How a Consumer Protection Law Became a Corporate Accounting Game
A woman stands at a pharmacy counter on a gray Tuesday afternoon, sliding her insurance card across the laminate. She… Read more
How Immigration Policy Became a Health Care Shortage
On a quiet street in Shelby, North Carolina, a medical office sat ready for a colleague who would never arrive…. Read more
Who Is Rand Paul and Why You Want to Know
Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record,… Read more
The Legal and the Low-Risk: The People Insurance Markets Can’t Afford to Lose
A late October evening in Denver, and a software designer named Marcus sits at his kitchen table scrolling through his… Read more
The Wisdom of the Ward and the Decline of Institutional Memory
There is a county clerk in Wisconsin who can tell you, without looking, which precincts always flip their absentee tallies… Read more
The Battle Over Healthcare Insurance Subsidies
Rep. Jen Kiggans of Virginia is hardly the person you’d expect to be leading the charge to save Obamacare subsidies…. Read more