Eli Saslow, Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle. Part 1 of a 6-part series in The Washington Post, beginning on 16 March 2013. Eli Saslow won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting “for his unsettling and nuanced reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in post-recession [United States], forcing readers to grapple with issues of poverty and dependency.”
June 1, 2009
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care
Atul Gawande. The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. The New Yorker, 1 June 2009. “[H]ealth care [in the US] is by far the most expensive in the world. In Washington, the aim of health-care reform is not just to extend medical coverage to everybody but also to bring costs under control.” This article compares the health care systems of El Paso and McAllen, Texas and explores the problem of revenue-driven medicine.