Profit the center of health care world
American health care revolves around the profit goals of hospitals, doctors and insurance companies, not the human needs of patients, says Amanda Bennett in The Daily Beast. That’s costly financially...
View ArticleShed light on charity races
Our opinion: Researching how much money goes to charity from road races organized by for-profit companies is difficult. This multibillion-dollar industry needs an infusion of sunlight. That charity...
View Article‘Reforms’ harm public schools
Thanks to Citizen Action’s Karen Scharff for her commentary (“Learning rests with Legislature,” Jan.23) setting the record straight on public education in New York. The “reforms” Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
View ArticleSingle-payer plan benefits citizens
Raising taxes has been the third rail of American politics. Large segments of our political establishment, including Hillary Clinton, oppose the Medicare-like single-payer health care system advocated...
View ArticleSchools in state address shortage
In the commentary “Shortage of doctors treatable,” Oct. 4, the author gets the facts wrong. No New York-based medical school has called for a ban on foreign medical schools’ paid clerkships. But, to be...
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