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Socialization of Scarcity and Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi.
Tuesday of this week I read an article that gave me hope. Lawmakers in Mississippi had struck a deal to expand Medicaid and provide health insurance…
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Small Choices Add Up
In August 1665 a tailor’s apprentice named George Vicars unpacked a parcel of cloth that arrived from London. The package was damp so Vicars unfolded…
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The Sad State of Rural Healthcare
When I wrote The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus I spent a lot of time reading outside of major publications like the New York Times or the Chicago…
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Reflections on Why I Wrote The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
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What could we have done better?
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The Costs of Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric
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Two Forms of Epidemic Risk
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Small Choices Add Up
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For Whom Has the Pandemic Ended?
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What could we have done better?
While I was writing The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus conversations about the book with friends and colleagues always turned to Covid-19. When it…
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Reflections on Why I Wrote The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks officially hit bookshelves last week! Given the milestone, I…
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Philadelphia’s First Essential Workers
How the Black community saved the city.
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The Slippery Slope from Invisible Public Health to Visible Public Crisis
Public health contains a litany of great phrases, but this one is my favorite: “Public health is invisible until it fails.” Public health keeps the food…
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A Tale of Coin Flips, Luck, and a Dangerous Decision in California
This week many news outlets reported on an early January Covid-19 policy change in California. Contrary to CDC guidance, the California Department of…
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Two Forms of Epidemic Risk
“The problem is that young, healthy people interact with at-risk people, and they don’t have enough respect for that.” Dr. Eric Topol, Executive Vice…
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Napoleon’s Unexpected and Deadly Foe
Disease not cannon balls and bullets was responsible for two of his most important defeats.
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Troy Tassier's Newsletter: At the Margin
Troy Tassier's Newsletter: At the Margin
A newsletter striving for health equity in an unequal world. At the Margin sits at the intersection of economics, healthcare, epidemiology, poverty & inequality. It's meant to bother and inspire in equal parts. Follow me on Twitter & Bluesky: @TroyTassier
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