Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist

Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD, is a practicing primary care physician, epidemiologist, and co-founder of Waymark. He received his MSc in Medical Anthropology from Oxford, and his MD and PhD from Yale, then completed internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He previously ran a health care research lab at Stanford, served as Director of Research for the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and is currently a primary care physician at San Francisco’s Integrated Care Center for marginally housed adults. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles on health policy and population health.

Insurance Algorithms Are Increasingly Determining Patient Care

The history of insurance shows a privatized public insurance market is working as designed: maximizing revenue by charging taxpayers and minimizing payment by denying claims.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
An Increasing Number of Immigrants in the US Are Avoiding Going to the Doctor

Making people afraid to get care does not protect the health system. It merely ensures that the care delivered is the most expensive, least effective and most desperate kind.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
The DoorDash Driver

Health Access Programs offer basic services to uninsured residents. But delivery drivers are often too busy, too indebted and too scared to take advantage of them.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
The Double Standard of Evidence

The wealthy can afford their skepticism. It is the poor who bear the consequences when herd immunity erodes.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
Hospitals and Insurance Companies Are Increasingly Working Together. Patients Have a Question.

Who’s working for us?

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
The Clinical Divide

Introducing a column about the chasm between patients’ experience and the health system.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
Measles Season Is Here. How Likely Are You to Recommend a Vaccine?

While vaccination politics are centuries old, vaccine decisions today are treated like a consumer gadget — subject to the whims of brand loyalty and user experience.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist
Medicaid Is Under Attack. Here’s How to Rebuild It Right.

The program has always been underfunded and overlooked. The current crisis is an opportunity to reimagine care for those who need it most.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist