If you don’t have good health care, neither should your rep
Until they deliver for the whole public, the public owes them nothing.
How taxpayer money provides the research for Big Pharma
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?
‘Just horrific’: Pandemic fuels steepest decline in US life expectancy since WWII
"U.S. life expectancy at birth for 2020, based on nearly final data, was 77.3 years, the lowest it has been since 2003."
Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer.
So what’s ultimately behind this low life expectancy?
Selling insurance across state lines
Experts cited several reasons that the across-state-lines idea wouldn’t be a cure for high premiums as the president implied.
Kids need to wear masks when they go to school in person, and parents...
I know this is easier said than done but, in my view, this struggle is worth the effort.
Trump’s expected pick for top USDA scientist is not a scientist
Sam Clovis likely to be named undersecretary of the USDA department that manages research on everything from climate change to nutrition.
Tear gas is way more dangerous than police let on — especially during the...
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surfaces, and can cause long-term lung damage.
Big Pharma Preps to Spend Hundreds of Millions to Keep Drug Prices High
"PhRMA's decision to hike membership dues 50 percent will increase the trade group's considerable coffers to more than $300 million per year," Politico reports
54 million people in the US may go hungry during pandemic—can urban farms help?
In the COVID era, growing food locally has become more essential than ever.