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When national headlines focus on healthcare consolidation—hospital systems acquiring physician practices, private equity buying clinics, insurers merging into ever-larger entities—it’s easy to assume this is simply how healthcare works now. But in Southern Oregon, a quieter and more instructive model has been operating for decades. AllCare Health, the coordinated care organization serving roughly 70,000 people […]

Modern medicine has produced extraordinary breakthroughs. Diseases that were once fatal are now treatable. Conditions that once meant lifelong disability can be managed or even cured. Yet access to these advances remains deeply uneven. Across low- and middle-income countries, millions of people still cannot obtain essential medications—not because the science doesn’t exist, but because the