Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: healthcare

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.

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.

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Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“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.
A Google data center outside Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo: Chad Davis / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.
The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building in Washington, headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.