by allison | Aug 22, 2024 | Health Care
Last year I wrote a newspaper op-ed called “String Theory,” about our state government’s habit of turning away federal funds—Tennesseans’ own tax dollars, intended to help Tennesseans in need—because of the “strings” attached. I suggested “strings” meant having to...
by allison | Aug 1, 2022 | Health Care
“In an ideal world, politics and health would be independent of each other and it wouldn’t matter whether one lives in an area that voted for one party or another. But that is no longer the case. From our data, we can see that the risk of premature death is higher for...
by allison | Jul 28, 2022 | Health Care
If you were in elementary school in 2007 or you had a child in elementary school in 2007—I fall into the second category—you’ve heard of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It’s a sweet, silly, mildly irreverent (and so, of course, sporadically banned) book about an awkward...
by allison | Jul 26, 2022 | Health Care
What if someone offered you $20 billion? What if, by taking that money, you could help 350,000 Tennesseeans who desperately need it–and, by extension, everyone else in Tennessee? Would you turn that money down? Since 2014, the state of Tennessee has turned down around...
by allison | Jul 20, 2022 | Health Care
I’m a Tennessee football fan. If you are too, you know the struggle. After an early loss to Duke my junior year at UT, I gave up for the season. Weeks later I watched from my window in Strong Hall—where I’d stayed in to avoid the Alabama game I knew we were going to...
