Healthcare Policy & Access
The EpiPen scandal was never about profit; it was about pricing structure — and that distinction is the job. I write about the machinery of American healthcare — drug pricing, insurance coverage, the incentives nobody defends out loud — because the people paying for its failures are the ones I meet on shift. The essays run from Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times to The Hill; the same case gets made on CNN and NewsNation. Pulling back the iron curtain far enough to see the machine is the first step to fixing it.
Start herePricing structure, not profits, are the problem in the EpiPen scandal — The Hill
In print
2026Obesity Dilemma: Pay Now or Pay for What It Becomes LaterOp-ed — Refusing to pay for obesity treatment now just buys costlier disease later.Medscape2026To TrumpRx or Not to TrumpRx: How to Solve Drug Pricing Is the QuestionOp-ed — Drug pricing’s newest political fix, weighed against how pricing actually works.Medscape2023What To Do About America’s Shrinking Life Expectancy?Op-ed — America’s life expectancy is shrinking — and what would actually reverse it.Newsweek2020How COVID-19 caused the U.S. to implement universal healthcareOp-ed — As one of the most unassuming side effects of the coronavirus, the U.S., for the first time in its history, set up a system of universal healthcare.Los Angeles Times2020I’m An Emergency Room Physician. Inadequate Access To Health Care Is Breaking UsOp-ed — Emergency rooms no longer just exist for emergency care, but now encompass all available care. We are the safety net in health care, but who is ours?NPR · WBUR On Point2017If You Can’t Afford $4,500 for a Dose of Medicine, You Don’t Get to LiveOp-ed — Drug pricing, measured in who gets to live.Truthout2016Pricing structure, not profits, are the problem in the EpiPen scandalOp-ed — The EpiPen scandal was a pricing-structure problem, not a profit problem.The Hill2016The importance of Planned Parenthood in the Zika epidemicOp-ed — Why Planned Parenthood mattered in the Zika response.The Hill2016How ‘privatization’ may solve the VHA physician shortagesOp-ed — What ‘privatization’ could actually fix in VA physician shortages.The Hill2016Iron curtain of drug pricing will topple the healthcare systemOp-ed — Opaque drug pricing — and the system it will eventually topple.The Hill
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