A Bacon-Wrapped Cholesterol Bomb
Bacon continues to add to the growing obesity epidemic in America, not to mention the health problems that come with it. So could Little Caesars' new bacon-wrapped pizza, with an excess of toppings, help land you in the emergency room?
Former healthcare executive pleads guilty to bribing state senator
“Raveendran’s plea based on his egregious criminal conduct underscores our decision to charge him initially for Medicaid fraud following our extensive investigation involving millions of documents.”
How to in the holiday healthcare debate with your conservative relatives
Like 99% of Americans, Uncle Joe would benefit from the change if he only knew the truth.
‘Drop the Medicare eligibility age to 0 right now’: Study warns 35 million could...
"For all the abstracted talk over the last year about health insurance churn, we are likely about to see it on an unprecedented scale in terms of velocity and devastation."
Dr. Paul Farmer: Centuries of inequality in the US laid groundwork for pandemic devastation
“All the social pathologies of our nation come to the fore during epidemics.”
COVID-19: The rich, the poor, the ‘other’
Perhaps, the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic melt down will be the trigger for such a seismic, but essential, change in the way we live.
Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide, which is bad for your health...
Agricultural subsidies help prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable.
Drugged water: A new global pandemic hiding in plain sight?
While 80 percent of wastewater in the world is not treated, even in developed countries treatment facilities are often unable to filter out dangerous bugs.
In Flint water crisis, could involuntary manslaughter charges actually lead to prison time?
Prosecutors will try to prove five Michigan officials were responsible for a Legionnaires’ death because they knew about the problem, but failed to warn the public. Similar cases of environmental disasters have not resulted in convictions, but there are reasons Flint could break the mold.
Warren and Sanders: Medicare for All: Without a public option, it’s dead in the...
In this country, we have private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the VA (veterans) system. How in the world did that ever happen?








