Published in The Washington Post. I realized long ago that there are two separate and very different health-care systems in this country.

Co-published with Newsweek. So many veterans who leave the tangle of war end up on America's streets, still fighting daily for their survival.

Co-published with The Nation. How a war correspondent found himself bouncing rowdy customers at a strip club—and what came next.

Co-published with The New Republic. Experts say the long-Covid crisis will mirror the pandemic itself, creating a “tsunami of disability” that will take a disproportionate toll on …

Co-published with The Nation. Unless there are drastic changes to how we apportion health care in this country, the future of rural care will be either …

Co-published with The American Prospect. Christian health shares market themselves as a cheaper alternative, but have no obligation to actually pay health care bills. Life under them …

Co-published with VICE. Doctors are already getting spooked out of prescribing painkillers, and new rules could make life in some of America's struggling communities even worse.

Co-Published with the Virginia Quarterly Review. If faith fosters separateness, how do you navigate healthcare for your children? A #VQRTrueStory essay.

Co-published with The Nation. Americans can’t afford to retire in the United States, so many are moving south of the border, trading one form of inequity for …

Co-published with The New York Times Magazine. In 1975, 10 women filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that a Los Angeles medical center was systematically sterilizing Spanish-speaking mothers.

Co-published with The Atlantic. Darryl Lorenzo Wellington reports on the multi-billion dollar plasma donation industry, including his own experience “plassing” for cash.

Co-published with Huffington Post. In a California county, one in four residential care homes for the elderly has been in foreclosure since 2008.