mollyosberg
Molly Osberg
mollyosberg
Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast who reports on crime, class, and the U.S. healthcare system. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing collection.

for my purposes I wanted to evaluate the actual food as a category rather than brand names or flavors! So assume everything on this list is made with the worst possible ingredients. We’re rationing, baby. 

we’re not keeping it together particularly well, tbh

I think I can say with some certainty I am vastly more mortified than you were annoyed. I was a copy editor in another life! I really do appreciate you bringing it to my attention so quickly, though.

it’s been corrected, and i guess you’re my new boss now, bud 

god, can you just chill? it’s a literal freaking monarchy. 

I think it’s useful to ask what number we as, like, a country or a class of people, consider “acceptable” or “reasonable” for significantly better care. 200 a year? 300 a year? 100? How do we come to that number? Why? Who is deciding? Also worth noting One Medical is currently venture funded and not a profitable Read more

I mean you can’t write about this stuff without writing about OM, though—their success is what paved the way for all this other shit, and got the industry so excited about heaping millions of dollars on membership-based offices. If the trend is “pay some more for superior care,” they’re still in there. Is it fucked? Read more

free buddy!!!!!! 

im just out here living my truth buddy 

sorry to say this was 100% Slack law

okay but at what altitude could a space horse even still reasonably breathe

ah fuck, ya got me 

it would be so much worse if it wagged 

Deadspin Forever

the bias in/general lack of research is a vital issue that I sincerely hope I am not taking away from here!