How to expand health coverage while containing costs is one of the great unanswered questions in American politics.

During a time of political polarization, writes Matt Malone S.J., it is more often the serious business of governing that is a distraction—from the partisan combat that has become our all-consuming pastime.

Death rates from the coronavirus have been highest in low-income areas, writes Robert David Sullivan. And according to one measure of economic inequality, the U.S. more closely resembles Latin America and Africa than Europe.

We can no longer tolerate the serious problems that result from a broken and fragmented health care financing system.

The ethical problem with talking about ‘expected life years’

Did the old “normal” way of doing things exhaust all possibilities for communal celebration? Is that what we want to return to, even if doing so were possible?