Why is my doctor worried about my mortgage payments?

So I found myself wondering as I filled out a questionnaire before a recent primary-care visit.

Along with the usual prompts about my health, I encountered a series of questions related to my financial situation.

The form asked whether in the last 12 months I was unable to pay my mortgage or rent on time, and if I was “worried that my food would run out before I got the money to buy more.”

These questions weren’t an attempt to gauge whether I would pay my medical bill; they were part of a campaign driven by political activists out to justify socialist policies in the name of improving health care. 

Federal rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services actually give doctors a financial incentive to ask these questions. 

In other words, medicine is one more institution that has been co-opted to advance a leftist party line.

The questions I was asked reflect the activist obsession with what’s known as the “Social Determinants of Health.”

The way the argument goes, factors like income, education, neighborhood conditions, racism, access to transportation and so on heavily determine a patient’s health.

The World Health........

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