Health

With his ego at stake on health care, the people who voted for Trump are in grave danger of losing their health coverage.

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

"Because of the inherent health risks for mine workers, we can easily see the need for a health system that guarantees they get the care they need. Only Medicare for All solves these problems, and provides the security workers need."

There’s only one Medicare for All plan, and it deserves widespread support – from its friends, its current enemies, and all the people in between.

Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’...

The other epidemic, meanwhile, is causing what amounts to a massacre of the nation’s institutionalized elderly in nursing homes.

In one, billionaires are sheltering in place on their yachts in the Caribbean, and wealthy families are safely quarantining in multimillion-dollar mansions. In the other boats sit people risking their lives for their jobs and people without incomes going hungry.

Any true hope in ending despair and the unchecked spread of the coronavirus must begin by following the public’s clearly documented trust in science.

Covid-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated — not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.

“While further studies are needed to corroborate observations and identify mechanisms, regulatory action is urgently needed.”