Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Tag: healthcare

With Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, UN rapporteur calls for...

Some 350 staff and patients were illegally detained by Israeli forces, though most were subsequently released.

Gaza: Doctors warn thousands of Palestinians could die this winter from...

A new United Nations report finds that Israeli strikes on and near hospitals in the Gaza Strip have “pushed the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse.”

Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for...

The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.

Inside the country’s first official safe drug consumption site

An overdose prevention site in New York City continues its research-backed, lifesaving work.

What is our collective solution to health injustice?

The fight over health care in the U.S. is about competing narratives: profit-making versus collective well-being. We need to articulate a publicly funded solution now—before corporate spin silences us.

Bernie Sanders slams Congress for claiming ‘no money’ for housing and...

The senator criticizes lawmakers for prioritizing the military-industrial complex over working families as the Senate advances a near $1 trillion defense budget.

Native American patients are sent to collections for debts the government...

Native communities are twice as likely to have medical debt in collections, agency finds.

A murder on the streets has fear rising in the suites

A gunman murdered the chief executive of a corporate insurance powerhouse that regularly registers hefty profits denying health help to sick people who desperately need it.

CEO assassination suspect claimed insurance industry ‘had it coming’

The shocking case of a corporate CEO’s assassination sheds light on systemic frustration, extremism, and the risks of growing inequality.

Jayapal and Sanders seize on Musk’s critique of US healthcare costs...

Progressive lawmakers urge Elon Musk to address healthcare inefficiencies, highlighting Medicare for All as the solution to rising costs and inequality.

POPULAR

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.

Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage

Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.

Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...

Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.

Million-dollar earners stop paying into Social Security for 2026

Recent polling indicates significant public support for reform, with approximately 71 percent of voters favoring a tax increase on wealthy Americans to guarantee the program's solvency.

Big oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show

Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.