Steffie Woolhandler, MD
@swoolhandler.bsky.social
Research based health advocacy
Stephanie Joan "Steffie" Woolhandler is an American primary care physician and medical researcher. An advocate for single-payer health insurance in the United States, she is a co-founder and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). .. more
Economics
40%
Public Health
30%
Health care in the USA: money has become the mission
Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system
underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based
policies that have stimulated ...
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Our analysis of the harmful role of profit-seeking in US healthcare. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Immigrants’ Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care Exceed the Costs of Their Care url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2798221?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080825
Native Americans’mortality exceeds other Americans’ by 42%. Our shocking
findings in today’s JAMA. url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835392?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=061625
findings in today’s JAMA. url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835392?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=061625
New from our group: Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2835084?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=061025
Over 350K Health Workers Face Deportation Risk
Survey study quantifies the role of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, in healthcare
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Mass deportations threaten healthcare for all Americans. Our group's work in today's JAMA www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Reposted by Steffie Woolhandler
"Few have questioned who should own hospitals and other essential health care resources."
This Viewpoint discusses the collapse of the Steward Health Care system and the conflict between financial ambition and clinical mission.
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This Viewpoint discusses the collapse of the Steward Health Care system and the conflict between financial ambition and clinical mission.
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#MedSky
Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees
Those with MA and traditional Medicare plans had similar rates of care and spending on 'extras'
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Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees : our new study in JAMANetworkOpen with Chris Cai and Lisa Simon www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...