healthcare

Saving Lives, Sinking Shares: the Gilead Effect

Ten years ago, Gilead Sciences did what modern medicine says it exists to do: it cured a disease.

Jul 16 •

On “Clinician Resistance” in Healthcare Tech

It’s the diagnosis pulled out whenever a doctor or nurse pushes back on some new system, tool, or “transformation.” To outsiders, it sounds neutral—a…

Jul 14 •

The Myth of Moral Decay

How American Policy Manufactures Bystander Inaction

Jul 9 •

Beyond Deservingness

There’s a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern public policy: Propose universal provision—unconditional meals, healthcare, housing, or cash—and…

Jul 1 •

Racism as a Business Model

How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine

Jun 13 •

Universality Disincentivizes Surveillance

In health insurance, credit, and employment, private actors mine ZIP codes, prescription histories, résumé gaps, and spending habits to assign risk and…

Jun 2 •

Edge-Case Medicine: How Profit Logic Treats Life as Waste

Capitalism doesn’t just cut corners—it cuts people out.

May 4 •

What We Built, and Why We Let Go

In August 2024, we decided to end Andwise, with no formal press release, no dramatic pivot tweets—just a resolve to shut it down before becoming…

Apr 12 •

Emergent Universality vs Top-Down Healthcare

While conventional thinking holds that only big bureaucracies can deliver universal healthcare, anarchist practices illustrate a very different path…

Apr 6 •

Some pain will, of course, be there.

You arrive at the hospital from the airport, taking MARTA straight to Northside.

Apr 5 •

"Why Can’t They Just Die Already?"

Why Waiting for Boomers to Disappear Won’t Save Us

Apr 4 •

I Am Expensive and So Are You

Are You Afraid of Being Too Big An Ask?

Mar 25 •

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