Expanding Medicaid Without Reform Harms Our Most Vulnerable Patients

I assume most neurosurgeons just care about neurosurgery.

Period.

They fix brains, they fix spines, they save lives and they go home to their very nice houses in the suburbs.

Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio probably does all that too.

But he also spends his free time studying Medicaid policy. He testifies before Congress about healthcare reform.

He respectfully addresses the concerns of his obnoxious internet trolls on X.

He writes papers with titles like: "Medicaid Insurance is a Predictor of Prolonged Hospital Length of Stay After Traumatic Brain Injury”

And for a long time, I’ve wondered:

Why would a surgeon who will always have a job, will always make good money and will always be essential to the healthcare system care so deeply about family medicine, poor people and about how patients pay for healthcare in general?

I had to know, so I asked.

I actually first 'met' Anthony through his writing, his research and his relentless advocacy for making sure that people in need have real access to care.

And w…