Advocates for marijuana policy reform say a police union leader’s allegation that college freshman Tessa Majors was buying marijuana when she was murdered illustrates the case for legalizing the drug. After Barnard College freshman Majors, 18, was fatally stabbed last week while walking in Morningside Park in upper Manhattan, Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins… Read More »
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers! By BOB HERTZ When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment. They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging. Medicare offers decent protection — i.e. limits on balance billing, and no patient… Read More »
Dec. 14th’s lower court ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional has again thrust health care back on the national agenda. It also gives journalists a chance to redeem themselves from what I have argued has been poor news coverage that helped fuel the public backlash against the law from the beginning. A lot… Read More »