Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor
Abstract
Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular subpopulations or sectors of care remain understudied. Amidst many unanswered questions from policymakers and political pundits, rural health has emerged as one such area. This article explores rural Canada’s five-decade-long experience with a national publicly funded health insurance program as a valuable opportunity for cross-national learning. During March 2020, I conducted 13 semi-structured, elite stakeholder interviews with government officials, academic researchers, rural hospital executives, public health association leaders, rural health administrators, and representatives from provincial medical, hospital, and physician associations in Ontario. I found that a single-payer model confers notable advantages over a market-based model, includ
Posted on 20th January 2021 by Anna Orhanen
A powerful exploration of mourning, love and ritual,
Mrs Death Misses Death is the debut novel of the acclaimed poet and writer Salena Godden. An exhilarating journey through different times and climes, this though-provoking story follows Death itself as the titular protagonist and a young writer who embarks on chronicling her memoir. In this exclusive piece, Godden talks about how the novel came into being, the geography of grief, and the importance of those connections that might not always be obvious.
It was a wintry night when I realised I was writing a new book. I d met my best friends for a Christmas drink. We d had a few rums and talked about how knackered and skint we were and how worried we all were about things. It had been a rotten year, so many lost, so many funerals and we sighed and raised a glass or two.