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Adam Gaffney

Adam Gaffney is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He is President of the advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program. He blogs at theprogressivephysician.org. 

March 2020

  • Boston's Carney Hospital designated coronavirus treatment location<br>epa08300826 A large tent for out-patient screenings is set up outside the ER admissions at the Carney Hospital in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 17 March 2020. According to a statement by Steward Health Care, the Carney Hospital has been designated as a treatment location for patients suffering from the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, in what appears to be the first such designation in the US. EPA/CJ GUNTHER

    America's extreme neoliberal healthcare system is putting the country at risk

    Adam Gaffney
  • U.S. President Trump holds a news briefing on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Washington<br>U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news briefing on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while accompanied by members of the task force at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

    Trump sees the coronavirus as a threat to his self-interest – not to people

    Adam Gaffney

December 2018

  • Recent reports have found that single-payer healthcare would reduce our nation’s spending by trillions of dollars over a decade.

    Universal healthcare could save America trillions: what’s holding us back?

    Adam Gaffney
    A slew of studies are confirming that America can afford real universal healthcare, but some call it economically infeasible

September 2018

  • Medicare for all has become a part of mainstream discourse, and public support of the idea has soared.

    Universal healthcare was unthinkable in America, but not any more

    Adam Gaffney
    A single-payer healthcare system appears closer than ever but to make it a reality we must avoid the pitfalls of the past

April 2018

  • Drugstore giant CVS, which already runs the nation’s largest chain of retail clinics, is buying insurer Aetna for $69bn.

    The US is entering a golden age of corporate medicine

    Adam Gaffney
    The recent slew of mergers and acquisitions is part of a larger corporate transformation that is remaking American healthcare – for the worse

March 2018

  • west virginia strike

    The West Virginia teachers' strike is over. But the fight for healthcare isn't

    Adam Gaffney
    The strike was largely about healthcare benefits, which the deal for the most part skirted

February 2018

  • bernie sanders

    Why are Democratic party thinktanks still not backing universal healthcare?

    Adam Gaffney
    The Center for American Progress is inching closer to ‘Medicare for All’ – but its version leaves some gaping holes

June 2017

  • Healthcare protest

    Trumpcare is like a vampire, set on sinking its teeth into the poor

    Adam Gaffney
    The relationship of the Republican bills to tax breaks resembles that of water crackers to cheese: a delivery device with little independent function of its own

May 2017

  • healthcare protest

    The US healthcare system is at a dramatic fork in the road

    Adam Gaffney
  • paul ryan and donald trump

    Donald Trump's homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and enrich others

    Adam Gaffney

March 2017

  • Donald Trump

    Trumpcare is dead. May it forever stay in its shallow grave

    Adam Gaffney
  • trump protest

    Republicans call kicking millions off their healthcare 'freedom'? That's perverse

    Adam Gaffney
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