Tag: health care

At a checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona, around 6,000 Americans cross into Los Algodones, Mexico daily for health care reasons – predominantly dental care.

It doesn’t matter if he personally wins or not, so long as his platform – and particularly Medicare for All – is victorious.

The "irony of it" was just too rich that he would travel to Canada, which enjoys a socialized, single-payer healthcare system, to have the procedure performed.

There is too much at stake. People will not let the Democrats send the movement off course again.

Basically, Medicare is geographically limited. But what’s the point of this exclusionary rule?

We can only hope that the Democrats who won a new mandate on health care in November will now find the courage to deliver on big ideas like in-state single-payer programs, and push for Medicare for All at the federal level.

Bernie Sanders in a keynote speech on healthcare, raising the minimum wage and his bipartisan resolution to end military support for the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing of Yemen.

Capitalism does not just threaten the health and well being of every human, but life on this earth as we know it.

"As Donald Trump and Republicans have stepped up attacks on Medicare for All, their own party has embraced the policy."

That combination has touched off a behind-the-scenes race by private companies, some offering questionable – or at least unproven – treatments for the signature injury of modern war: post-traumatic stress disorder.