Tag: healthcare
Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
While the cost of health care is one of the overwhelming problems in the American health care system, short-term health plans do nothing to alter the underlying causes.
Labor’s power and the Medicare For All struggle
Missouri nurse Shane Johnson makes the case for uniting our health care struggles.
Koch-funded hit piece backfires: Shows Medicare For All would save ‘whopping...
"Even if you take the report's headline figures at face value, the picture it paints is that of an enormous bargain. We get to insure every single person in the country..."
Drug shortages pose a public health crisis in the US
All too often, a shortage means that doctors cannot give the right drugs to patients when needed.
Some straight talk for younger people on Social Security (and Medicare...
As the scaremongering begins, this is your fight too!
Candidates backing Medicare For All come out victorious in primaries
Candidates supporting Medicare For All are beating their party-backed opponents in both red and blues states.
Trump’s drug price reforms amount to a ‘sugar-coated nothing pill’
The president says he wants to lower drug prices, but Big Pharma isn't fooled.
Bernie Sanders calls for Big Pharma to testify before Congress just...
"It is time for Congress to investigate this crisis, to learn what the drug companies knew and to hold them accountable for the tens of thousands of people who have died."
Which path to national improved Medicare for All?
The solution to preserving our social health systems is to make them universal.
Bernie Sanders just sidestepped corporate media to promote Medicare for All...
A live-streamed town hall on healthcare policy is “a little bit revolutionary” and a cause for hope.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.