OPINION — As Charles Dickens might have said, “It is the best of times in medicine, it is the worst of times in healthcare.”
It is a time of great medical discovery with artificial intelligence, it is a time of the poorest outcomes for the sick.
One of America’s most distinguished pediatric cardiologists says the nation is in desperate shape with the end of Medicaid subsidies and the 28 million people — or almost 10% of the population — who lack insurance. The number is growing as people trade off the cost of insurance and prescriptions against rent, food and electricity.
