Tag: healthcare
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.
Death by inequality: Poverty and racism are killing America’s children
While inequality makes the problem worse, the growing political power of the wealthy makes it more difficult to find solutions.
Bernie Sanders to host Medicare for All national town hall meeting...
"We are going outside the traditional media to change that, to talk about the real issues affecting the American people."
Thousands of Native American children will lose health insurance
If Children’s health is no longer funded (because Congress did not reauthorize the legislation) then the Indian Health Service will have to make up the difference.
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Education Department changes are leaving millions of vulnerable students at risk
Moving special education services and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies has left families wondering what's next.
More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
Japan and South Korea: An alliance of middle powers?
Hedging their bets against Donald Trump is pushing the two countries together.
The persistence of ‘Israel First’
Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.