Health Care Round-up

This summer health care reform is all over the news, and politicians back home in their districts during the recess are encountering all sorts of interesting characters. The Washington Post characterized a recent spate of town hall meetings, held by legislators to discuss the subject with their constituents, as “[having] transcended their original purpose [to] become a kind of professional wrestling for the civically engaged.”

Following up on Sam’s post, and on all the craziness going on in town halls, here is a sampling of past Boston Review on health care. The magazine has been covering health care issues for over a decade, in a manner hopefully closer to chess, or perhaps poker, than professional wrestling. But don’t take it from me – I’m a rugby person, myself.

Also: see if you can spot the brother of a White House official in this list (hint: the official in question is sometimes called “Rahmbo.”)

Dean Baker, Malpractice: When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules (May/June 2009)

Suzanne Gordon, March/April 2008, The Cure: Can doctors change how they think?

Forum: Reforming Health Care (November/December 2005)
- Jill Quadagno, Race for a Cure: Our health-care system is failing. What will save it?
- John Geyman, The Common Interest: Is it time for national health insurance?
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs, Getting Covered: Choose a plan everyone can agree on<
- Barbara Starfield, The Primary Solution: Put doctors where they count

Forum: Justice is Good for Our Health (February/March 2000)
- Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Justice is Good for Our Health: How greater economic equality would promote public health
- Michael Marmot, Do Inequalities Matter?
- Marcia Angell, Pockets of Poverty
- Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter, Equal Opportunity
- Ted Marmor, Policy Options
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Political Problems
- Barbara Starfield, First Contact
- Emmanuela Gakidou, Julio Frenk, and Christopher Murray, A Health Agenda
- Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, Lost in Translation
- Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi respond

John Canham-Clyne,  A Rational Option (October/November 1995)