Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn’t Been Fixed, by Dr. George D. Lundberg, M.D., with James Stacey. Basic Books, 371 pages, $26.00. “Remember, the job of a medical journal editor is to shed light, … to be the conscience of the profession.” Dr. George Lundberg got this kind of advice from fellow medical editors and […]
John McDonough
John E. McDonough is the director of Health Care for All and the author of Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Politics and Health Care.
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States First: The Other Path to National Health Reform
As a state legislator in Massachusetts since 1985, I have seen the best and worst of state health policy-making. In 1988 the Massachusetts Legislature approved a measure intended to guarantee health insurance to all 600,000 uninsured state residents. The early steps under the law, covering students, the unemployed, and disabled adults and children, were preludes […]