Health Care
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The Rumpus Interview with Charles Bock
Charles Bock discusses his new novel, Alice & Oliver, the challenges of writing from experience, and how art and life can mirror one another.
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Killer Mike Chats with Bernie Sanders
The rapper has made clear his admiration for the presidential candidate before, but the recent hour-long conversation between Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders is more than a token of mutual respect—the discussion stands on its own right as a compelling…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pressing On
The love story of June Carter Cash and her husband Johnny inspired another young family, keeping them close and providing the soundtrack to their lives in dark times. Decades later, Jennifer Nix looks back on the kidney disease and estrangement…
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“Why Are We So Poor?”
That’s how hard it is to see a doctor in Southeast Texas. People take a day off work to drive two hours to a student-run clinic that can only provide basic care. In a brutal portrait of the personal reality…
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The Health-Care Article That Might Give You A Heart Attack
If you haven’t yet read the Time exposé of the American health-care industry, you’re missing out. It’s easy to see that something’s wrong with the way we do health care in the United States, but hard to understand just how deep…
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Politics in the Exam Room
In the fall of 2008 I was chatting with a woman I know about the upcoming presidential election. She was in her 60s, single, a funky dresser, world traveler, and amateur artist—what my mom would have called a “free-spirited Auntie…
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Time For A Vote
“I think a lot of those people (protesting against the bill) today demonstrated this is not about health care. It’s about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.” — House Majority Whip James Clyburn,…
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Politics Sunday
Hey! You! I love doing these political links, but no one clicks on them. So I want to hear from you: What kind of political links do you want to see? What are you interested in? I will scour the…
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Wendell Potter–Healthcare’s Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, in case you don’t remember, is the Brown & Williamson chemist who accused his company of intentionally manipulating the tobacco blend to increase the amount of nicotine in cigarette smoke, thereby increasing the so-called ‘impact’ to the smoker,…
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Getting Everyone All Better
If you only read one article on health care this year, consider making it the same one as everyone else: Atul Gawande’s “The Cost Conundrum.” Gawande is great on paradoxes, mysteries and ethical conundrums in the practice of medicine, and…