Beaconomics
Halfway to single payer?
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The Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson began a sea change in health care finance. The public health insurance share has risen from 5 percent in 1965 to 41 percent today.
The other opioid crisis
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Rochester health care providers are hard at work averting another type of opioid crisis: a shortage of injectable opioids for home hospice and other outpatients who truly need them. How are they dealing with the challenge?
Policy Wonk
Health care in wonderland: single payer for New York
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It will take a lot of faith to support the New York State Health Act, a proposal to establish a single-payer system in New York. Can a single-payer plan achieve universal coverage? What would be required to implement the plan? And, if implemented, can it save money or, at least, break even?
Education
The power of longevity
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Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, has outlasted roughly a dozen superintendents of the Rochester City School District. While some blame him for staying too long and hindering progress, others hesitate to pin all the district’s woes on him.
Government & Politics
Candidates disagree on Trump influence
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The candidates vying to represent Monroe County in the 25th Congressional District, Democrat Joe Morelle and Republican Jim Maxwell, had very different approaches to President Donald Trump’s policies in two recent debates. But their positions on non-Trump issues generally fell along party lines.
Policy Wonk
Where you stand depends on where you sit
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A New York State Legislature wholly controlled by downstate interests won’t stop sending education aid Upstate or close the state parks. But the “where you stand depends on where you sit” aphorism holds a lot of truth.
Government & Politics
The intersection of faith and politics
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The constitutional agnosticism about religious belief (or unbelief) has spurred a creedal pluralism and religious vitality that is unique among Western nations. As the mid-term elections approach, the Beacon invited two perspectives on the intersection of faith and political engagement.
Education
Is he the real RCSD superintendent?
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Rochester Teachers Association President Adam Urbanski has consistently been in the crosshairs of the Rochester City School District’s fiercest critics. How did he get there?