Opinion | What If the Doctor Is Out?
Rosenbaum is a pediatrician and pediatrics professor. Brophy is an organizational sociologist and professor of health policy & management. Chief Complaint: Los Angeles House Staff Threaten to Strike In June 2022, Los Angeles interns and residents, collectively known as “house staff,” made a strike threat for what would have been the first house staff strike […]
Everybody Loves CHIP, So Why Isn’t It Permanently Funded?
WASHINGTON — When Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-Wash.), a pediatrician, was asked at the Families USA virtual conference in January about the important healthcare provisions in the Build Back Better Act, there was one item she made sure to mention: permanent funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). “Every year the Children’s Health Insurance […]