Readers Offer Their Takes on the Opioid Crisis, Family Doctor Shortage, and Vaccine Policies

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.

A chronic-pain patient advocate, who has been featured previously in KFF Health News coverage, spoke out on the social platform X about our “Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash” project:

Oh, look an entire investigation, of course partly by shatterproof, looking at where the settlement funds are going, and where they should go. Not one mention of pain patients as forgotten victims. Because we’ve actually been erased from the entire thing. https://t.co/LsHFs9tFwu— Bev Schechtman