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What Makes Health Care Special?
What makes health care special? That’s the question driving an essay by Chad Horne in a recent issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Horne, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA...
Q&A WITH JESSICA L. ADLER, Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Q: Why did you decide to write Burdens of War? I was a health reporter for a small daily newspaper in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 2000s, writing about issues ranging from the rollout of Medicare Part D and the financial woes of small inner city hospitals...
A Good Story, but Was It Accurate?
We hear a lot about fake news but what about fake history? How do we know that everything in history books is based on fact? We don’t. That is why history is always open to revision, and doing it requires a critical mind and the skills of a detective. I am a...
Guiding Families Through Long-Term Dementia Care
I started working with older adults when I was only 15 years old. My best friend and I would go twice a week to volunteer at a local skilled nursing facility. I remember one day she said to me, “You’re really good at working with old people.” This was a funny...
To Know Where Health Care is Going, You Have to Know Where It Has Been
November brings the opening of enrollment for 2017 health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as new questions about the sustainability of the health insurance marketplace created by ACA. The market in many areas of the country is...
