Health Care Financing > The Death Spiral > Under Covered > Preaching to the Exiles > The Sin of Wages > Can Humpty Dumpty Be Put Back     Together? > American Pie > Hard Labor > A Doctor’s Gamble in Nevada > Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow     Up to Be Doctors > Sidebar: Even Doctors Get the Blues > A Fistful of Dollars > The Doctor’s Lament

Health Care Financing
The Death Spiral
Gaps in health insurance have created a new caste system in the United States.
by Rushika Fernandopulle

Under Covered
What will it take to wake the nation up to the need for universal health coverage?
by Pat McCaffrey

Preaching to the Exiles
For people without health insurance, a serious illness can start a downward spiral that may even lead to homelessness.
by James J. O’Connell

The Sin of Wages
Why do the good doctors on television hospital dramas drive old cars while the bad ones wear bespoke suits?
by Atul Gawande

Can Humpty Dumpty Be Put Back Together?
A leader in medicine offers a proposal to help doctors, patients, and hospitals navigate the health care crisis.
by Mitchell T. Rabkin

American Pie
A physician argues that national health insurance will provide good care and a far more equitable distribution of resources.
by Steffie Woolhandler

Hard Labor
An obstetrician delivers a tough assessment of the realities of a medical specialty in peril.
by Vanessa Haygood

A Doctor’s Gamble in Nevada
One state’s struggle to survive the medical malpractice crisis has left doctors, patients, and lawmakers searching for answers.
by Katherine Keeley

Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Doctors
Corralled by increasing financial constraints and a loss of autonomy, some physicians are making unblinking reassessments of their career choices.
by Beverly Ballaro

Sidebar: Even Doctors Get the Blues
by Nakela Cook

A Fistful of Dollars
Physicians and economists share perspectives on how to cure what ails the current health care system in the face of ongoing fiscal constraints.

The Doctor’s Lament
An internist finds her idealistic vision of the healing art of medicine cut short by hard economic realities.
by Virginia Latham