Equal Pay for Equal Work
I love it when I see Medicaid patients on my schedule for the day. Working at a community health center, our doors are open to all people, regardless of their ability to pay. It̵…
About the Blogger
- Nilesh Kalyanaraman is a physician with Unity Health Care, a community health center in Washington DC. This fall he will be starting a Science and Technology Fellowship with the AAAS. He graduated from the SUNY Brooklyn School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. He and his wife live in Washington DC and are expecting their first child.
Editor's Note: Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the hospitals, clinics, and institutions where they work, teach, and study.
Recent Posts
Coercion
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week brought by 26 states against Obamacare (it IS catchy). One of the many good things in the health care reform law is the expansion of Medic…
Broccoli
As we were eating dinner Wednesday night my wife turned to me and confessed that she was apprehensive about the fate of health care reform. I asked her why and she said that for the …
Smearing the USPSTF
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is a federal committee composed of private sector experts in prevention and primary care. Its mandate is to make recommendat…
Essential Health Benefits
As part of the Affordable Care Act, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) was given the task of defining the essential health benefits (EHB) that all health insurance plan…
15 Minutes
My third patient of the day came in for the first time in three years. She had lost her job during the economic meltdown of 2008, and with it her health insurance. For the past…
Bearing Witness
Normally I’m full of statistics and studies but this past month I’ve been thinking about this blog post and all I can think about are the stories of the people I’ve…
Reminder Call
One of the most important things my staff and I do at the end of each day is call our patients. Sometimes it’s a reminder for their follow up visit. At times, it’s a requ…
What If Doctors Got Paid Only Medicare Rates?
Whenever I think of our health care system I think of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, assembled from an assortment of parts, trying to find and give love but reviled by all. Short …
The Real Spending Problem
Unless you cut your cable, disabled your Wi-fi, and burned your newspapers, you‘ve have had the sorry experience of watching our politicians demagogue on our national debt. Yes…
