Should President Obama come out of the Closet on Rationing?

An editorial in yesterday's Washington Post challenges President Obama to come out of the closet about rationing and fess up to the Amer...

Professor Obama's Health Care 101 Lecture

It's worth giving a careful reading to the transcript of President Obama's July 22 press conference. It can be read as the opening ...

Proven to be helpful for lesbians to come out to providers

Lesbian Women:  Come Out to Your Providers! Current studies on lesbian access to health care and participation in preventative health repo...

Peter Singer on Rationing

In yesterday's New York Times magazine, Peter Singer presents a patient, lucid explanation of the ethical and economic necessity for hea...

Letter to the Massachusetts Legislature

Dear Massachusetts Legislators - This fall you will be considering whether to put the Payment Reform Commission's recommendations for mo...

Payment Reform in Massachusetts

The other shoe just dropped in Massachusetts. Two months ago I wrote about the potential demise of fee-for-service payment in Massachusetts...

Praying with and for patients

I recently attended an inspiring forum sponsored by Andover Bread Loaf , "a private, non-profit organization based at Phillips Academy ...

Should Health Plans Spend Money on Community Service?

A couple of weeks ago I received the 2008 Annual Report from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the health plan at which I direct the ethics prog...