Because of their preferential option for the poor, Catholic hospitals have become known as a "provider of last resort" for uninsured and underinsured citizens. The Catholic Health Association envisions a health care system in which unequal access to care is no longer a burden the poor must bear.

Medicaid is a vital piece of health care for children; any decision to close a practice to new Medicaid patients means more preventable illness, more severe, acute illness among children, and an overloaded community emergency department.

The important question is not, “Who is to blame for the broken U.S. health care system?” but “Who is best able to make it better?”

Medical-legal partnerships integrate legal assistance—with such things as inappropriate denials of government benefits and unsafe living conditions—into health care.

A guide to diagnosing and treating community-acquired pneumonia in adults and children.

No matter where your medical career takes you, you will most likely encounter patients facing barriers to accessing health care. Everyone needs to prepare to care for underserved patients.

The social-justice question we must pose to physicians is: Are you willing to advocate for changes to the medical system that creates the need for you to take on charity care in the first place?

The delivery of just health care requires that physicians consider patients' financial circumstances and understand their values, but also that patients make health care a priority.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on physicians' duty to the poor.

Policies and systems are slow to resolve structural disparities in access to insurance coverage and health care, but physicians can act now.