Medicare Advantage overbills taxpayers by $140 billion a year—enough to wipe out Medicare premiums
"Medicare Advantage is just another example of the endless greed of the insurance industry poisoning American healthcare," says a new report from Physicians for a National Health Program.
How a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in pursuit of bigger...
A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines.
The price of Amazon’s ‘Prime’ business model is our bodies
With Amazon notorious for having one of highest injury rates in the warehouse industry, workers are demanding accommodations system reform to ensure that workers don’t have to sacrifice their health to keep their jobs.
Pope Francis tells world to speed up transition to renewable energy in Apostolic Exhortation
Pope Francis said Earth “may be nearing the breaking point” based on scientific facts and human factors contributing to climate change can no longer be ignored.
After ‘mind-blowing’ September, 2023 set to be hottest tear on record: EU Climate Agency
The European climate agency said Thursday that last month was the warmest September on record globally and "the most anomalous warm month of any year" in its dataset going back to 1940.
Russia’s eroding geopolitical strength
Russia is trying to protect a few pawns even as it puts its powerful queen at risk.
California governor names Feinstein’s replacement in Senate
Laphonza Butler will remain in the Senate until California holds two concurrent Senate elections in 2024.
GOP ‘political arsonists’ get their man: McCarthy ousted in historic House vote
The 216-210 vote to remove McCarthy (R-Calif.) came after his allies failed to come up with enough votes to table the motion to vacate.
US government shortens indigenous-proposed marine sanctuary to make way for offshore wind
“People don’t realize the damage that offshore wind could cause to the marine ecosystem."
A major win against factory farming points to a powerful new direction for the...
The victory could provide a glimpse of what a policy-focused national movement against the most climate-destructive forms of animal agriculture could look like.