China is taking dramatic measures to halt the spread of a new coronavirus that has already infected more than 42,000 people and killed more than 1,000 there. The country built two new hospitals in just over a week. With 2,600 beds between them, they represent an impressive feat of engineering (...)
Racism, inequality, and austerity politics were the culprits in the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. And residents are still living with the consequences.
Review of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Metropolitan Books, 2018) and What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of (...)
Trump promised to cut through the disarray in the two parties of capitalism in the U.S. through forcing upon them both a new strongman – himself – who knew how to get things done and make deals. The Republican health insurance debacle not only cut him down to size, but represented the triumph (...)
“Our nation’s HHS Secretary should aim to break down barriers to healthcare. Instead, Tom Price wants to build more.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top health official has an abysmal record on women’s issues and LGBTQ rights , advocates are warning on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Tom (...)
Hillary Clinton’s support for policies like welfare reform belie her claim to be a champion of children.
Hillary Clinton is well-versed in child welfare issues, having devoted much of her career to them, and her views, at first glance, seem progressive. Her popular 1996 book, It Takes a (...)
Writers in Alternative Left media — e.g. Socialist Worker, Labor Notes, Jacobin and Truth Dig — have reported on what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean for health care consumers (the individual family or individual shopfloor) when they sign up for health insurance.
Their reporting is (...)
WRITERS IN ALTERNATIVE Left media — e.g. Socialist Worker, Labor Notes, Jacobin and Truth Dig — have reported on what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean for health care consumers (the individual family or individual shopfloor) when they sign up for health insurance.
Their reporting is (...)
President Barack Obama intended the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, popularly known as Obamacare, to be his crowning achievement. The implementation of the system that began with open enrollment on October 1 has proven to be a fiasco. The president has fallen dramatically in (...)
September marked two related anniversaries. The first was the collapse five years ago of Lehman Brothers, which came to symbolize the financial collapse, the subsequent Great Recession, and the anemic recovery. The second was the upsurge of the Occupy movement two years ago in response, which (...)
SONYA HUBER (www.sonyahuber.com) is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (Class in America, University of Nebraska Press, 2010), The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (Equinox Publications, forthcoming 2011), and (...)
THE SOCIAL SECURITY “reform” proposal by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, in advance of the December release of the “bipartisan” deficit reduction commission appointed by president Obama, is only the preview of a coming series of savage attacks on programs that working people in the United States (...)
Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare reform bill passed by Senate on Thursday. After months of media coverage, a summer of wild town hall meetings and all the high-sounding rhetoric one could (...)
Unhealthy Facts
The population of the United States (U.S.) per the U.S. Census Bureau is slightly above 300 million (July 2008). 47 million Americans do not have any kind of medical insurance. In 2006, 108 million Americans had insufficient coverage or were underinsured. The definition of (...)
Our guest blogger is Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right and part of basic reproductive health care it would be available in the reformed health (...)
We know that the House healthcare reform bill passed after an eleventh-hour compromise (you might say betrayal) on abortion access. We know the compromise, the Stupak-Pitts amendment, is bad. But do we know exactly how it’s bad for women (and their partners)? Here’s a quick primer on what the (...)
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS, author of the single-payer bill HR676, was asked if he would come around in the end to voting for a version of President Obama’s health reform plan. He replied that he would, but only on two conditions. First, there would have to be a full discussion of single-payer (...)
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