Hiding In America’s “Deep Poverty Problem” is Health Care.

Mike Magee Angus Deaton, the Princeton professor and Nobel Laureate who documented the tie between America’s raging prescription opioid epidemic and the first multi-year decline in U.S. life expectancy in our history, has done it again. This time it’s America’s poor in a New York Times Op-ed title “The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From […]

Poverty and Health

How higher wages and improved education could lower health care costs Growing up in the 1950s, with a physician father who saw patients in an office attached to our house, I saw health care practiced every day. My father was as much a counselor and coach as he was a clinician and scientist – helping […]