Came across my notes from a December 2001 conference I attended where various national health policy leaders spoke to members of the California Association of Public Hospitals.  It was the darkly nervous days after 9/11. The conference's most pointed presenter was Dr. David Himmelstein, who is still professor of medicine at Harvard Medical ...

I can almost see February 14, touch it, smile at it. As long as I don't let my mind wander, all will be good. But it does wander. What parts of health care will suffer in California's $14 billion budget deficit? Does it make sense to push a $14 billion health care reform proposal when you're dismantling the departments that would implement ...