Charlotte Morabito. Why Americans have so much medical debt. CNBC, January 8, 2023.
Maiken Scott. How Money Shapes Medicine. WHYY’s The Pulse. July 19, 2024.
Luke Messac. Testimony before US Senate Committe on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. July 11, 2024. C-SPAN.
Luke Messac. Doctors are Employees Now. It’s Time for Us to Unionize. The Nation. November 1, 2023.
Luke Messac. Why medical debt forgiveness drives are not enough. Current Affairs, September 26, 2023.
Sara van Horn and Cal Turner. Medical debt collection is a vicious multibillion-dollar industry in the US: an interview with Luke Messac. Jacobin, September 12, 2023.
Luke Messac and Max Jordan Nguemeni. Health care worker unions are on the side of patients. Jacobin, August 23, 2023.
Luke Messac. The Great American Medical Debt Machine: How medical debt became big business. Peste, November 10, 2022.
Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson. Scarcity or medical neglect and exploitation? Scotonomics, October 3, 2022.
Cara Borelli. Emergency medicine residents share their innovations in our field. ACEPNow, March 21, 2022.
Alden Young, Elisa Prosperetti, Sarah Runcie, Geoffrey Traugh, and Luke Messac. H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-52 on Messac, No More to Spend, August 2, 2021.
Luke Messac and Megan Ranney. The deep roots of vaccine mistrust. Providence Journal, February 9, 2021.
Interview on No More to Spend with Max Tiako. Flip the Script Podcast, February 9, 2021.
Austerity myths and the health of nations: what Malawi tells us. Rhodes Center Podcast with Professor Mark Blyth. YouTube. November 27, 2020.
Amanda Milkovits. Recalling praise and humility from Dr. Anthony Fauci, a R.I. emergency doctor’s tweet goes, well, viral. Boston Globe. July 22, 2020.
Interview on No More to Spend with Prof Bekeh Ukelina, New Books in African Studies Podcast.
Kim Kalunian. RI emergency room visits down by half during COVID pandemic. WPRI, May 29, 2020.
A lesson on physician activism from Malawi’s legendary Dr. John Chiphangwi. STAT, May 6, 2020.
We need Medicare for All now, Providence Journal, March 12, 2020.
Lifespan, stop suing my patients, Uprise RI, September 19, 2019.
Women’s unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history, The Conversation, June 20, 2018.
Masire: The president who left Botswana and the world an enduring legacy, The Conversation, September 30, 2017.
The other opioid crisis–people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need, The Conversation, May 25, 2016.
Three steps for our new governor, The Daily Pennsylvanian, January 20, 2015.
The systems doctors, The New Physician, Nov/Dec 2014.
The borders of policy, The New Physician, Nov/Dec 2013.
Rural Malawi: A hard place to practice medicine, Dowser, September 25, 2013.
A view of life on the brink in rural Malawi, Pulitzer Center, August 26, 2013.
Malawi: Health fees empty mission clinic, Pulitzer Center, August 23, 2013.
Malawi’s health care subject of intense worry for country’s poor, Huffington Post, August 11, 2013.
Future physicians want PA to adopt Medicaid expansion: As I see it, PennLive, April 3, 2013. (with Stephanie Pollard, Utpal Sandesara, and Bradley End)
One step toward an AIDS-free generation, The Daily Pennsylvanian, November 10, 2011.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Colleges are producing a new style of AIDS activist,” New York Times, November 30, 2010.