INTRO TEXT In the preface to the first edition of his 1996 book License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America’s Health Care System, Malcolm Sparrow states that of all the research projects he has undertaken, this one was the most lonely. A professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Sparrow often found himself the lone […]
David S. Kassel
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Understanding Medicaid
When Christine St. Pierre was diagnosed a few years ago with diabetes, her doctor suggested it was time to give up living on her own. After all, she had already had a stroke and a heart bypass operation. But she refused. “I wouldn’t go into a nursing home,” says St. Pierre. But she wasn’t doing […]
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College Credit
Ben Lieberman’s tiny office on the third floor of the old Miller Building is crammed with books. In his 10 years at Fitchburg State College, the associate professor of history has done research ranging from the Weimar Republic to “ethnic cleansing” in both the Holocaust and the Balkans. At Fitchburg State, he says, he’s been […]