14-year-old me is never going to believe this.
Tag: healthcare
Weathering and delayed births, get your norms off my body edition
For Black women, the health risks increase linearly with age at birth. Why wait?
Blame the poor, “We tried generosity and it just doesn’t work” edition
Giving poor people money -- or in-kind benefits -- to help them survive is not a solution to poverty, it's a treatment for poverty. If we had more decency we'd do more of it.
Girls braced for beauty
Girls are held to a higher beauty standard and feel the pressure to get their teeth straightened. This subjects them to needless medical procedures and reinforces the over-valuing of appearance.
Home birth is more dangerous. Discuss.
Birth complications are somewhere between a hangover and a nuclear meltdown. What do we do to prevent them?
Obstacles to healthcare aren’t cheap either
Giving away healthcare has a lot of costs, but figuring out who to deny shouldn't be one of them.
Jobs and repeals
Slow progress.
Health inequality recap
Killing time before the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare is announced.
Prescriptions for poverty
Economic insecurity in a snapshot.
Care vacuums
Which came first, the closed nursing home or the doubled-up household?
Family Inequality 