Can We Afford Personalized Medicine? Special treatment for ‘high profile’ patients; exasperation for the rest of us Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care People Who Donate Organs For Transplants Can Have Difficulty Getting Insurance Foundations, Conflicts Of Interest And Drugmakers Mission Crash: The Intolerable Policy Incoherence in US AIDS Policy, Global and [...]
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Posted in Access to Medicines, Advocacy, Assistance, Children's Health, Economics of Health Care, Environmental Health, Ethics, Global Health, Health Care Marketing, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Health Literacy, Healthcare Inequalities, Language Access, Recession, State of Washington, Workers' rights on 18 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Losing Your Job When You Get Sick
Posted in Advocacy, Discrimination, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Workers' rights on 14 April 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On tonight’s evening news, King 5 TV, our local CBS affiliated carried a story about a Microsoft worker who lost his job after being diagnosed with leukemia. Duncan Sutherland came forward after after seeing another report the night before about Ken Knightley, a Microsoft worker who is now being denied paid leave to undergo treatment [...]
