Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: healthcare

It’s our choice: Medicare for All, or endless war?

We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

How we can take on powerful interests to win Medicare for...

Building support for Medicare for All is not hard. But beating back the wealthy forces determined to profit off of illness is.

The real deal with Medicare for All

Any Medicare for All is better than our present system.

New study shows staggering consequences of for-profit healthcare system and Americans’...

34 million adults know someone who died after not getting the necessary treatment because of affordability.

Warren and Sanders: Medicare for All: Without a public option, it’s...

In this country, we have private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the VA (veterans) system. How in the world did that ever happen?

The ignorance about universal healthcare for Americans is astounding, incomprehensible

If we sent a man to the moon, if we developed the revolutionary internet, then we can develop a world-class healthcare system.

We found over 700 doctors who were paid more than a...

Back in 2013, ProPublica detailed what seemed a stunning development in the pharmaceutical industry’s drive to win the prescription pads of the...

2.2 million petition demanding Medicare for All

Yesterday, 2.2 million petition signatures were delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives to show support of Medicare for All. 

Big Pharma invests millions as Congress readies drug pricing bills

As millions of Americans skip their medication due to the ballooning high prescription costs, Congress is seeking ways to cap drug pricing. 

Healthcare ad spending exceeds $65 million in 2019 as insurance industry...

An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money organizations, the insurance industry, and...

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“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
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Three-quarters of Americans would oppose a data center near their home, new polling finds

Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities.
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On September 2, federal layoff appeals move from the Merit Systems Protection Board to...

Ninety-nine percent of the 1,252 public comments opposed the change, and employees will no longer be able to take a final decision to federal court.
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The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, a property of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the lead plaintiff in the case. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...

The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.