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The Gospel According to Tom Homan

The Gospel According to Tom Homan The Gospel according to Tom Homan begins with the story of a five-year-old boy who was the first among nineteen migrants to die of extreme heat in the cargo bed of a truck that transported them across the Mexican border in 2003. Homan, the senior White House staffer dubbed the nation’s “border czar,” tells the story well, and often. Its power is in the details: the little boy dead in his yellow underpants, his other clothing removed in the suffocating heat. H...

United States
Healthcare

How can India create a health system that works for everyone?

The Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centred Health System for India presents a timely and comprehensive assessment of India's health system.1 Although noting India's progress in reducing infant and maternal mortality and increasing life expectancy, the report also highlights persistent gaps in health-care delivery, and identifies that the main challenges are fragmented governance, poorly coordinated delivery, and a system organised around facilities rather than patients. The Commission's equal emphasis on equity and efficiency is also crucial

India