About This Author
Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and president of Physicians for a National Health Program. His writing about health, policy, politics, and history has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Salon, and The New Republic, among many other publications. He tweets @awgaffney.
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