How We Get To Medicare For All
Nancy J. Altman, Portside Health care should be available to everyone in America as a right—automatic and free of charge when we need it. Rich or poor, sick or healthy,…
EPA Punts Microplastics Monitoring as Scientists Warn of Health Impacts
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s administration omitted microplastics from a list of pollutants for local utilities to monitor in drinking water. If you’ve ever…
Subverting Food Safety, HHS Secretary Kennedy Inflicts on US the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak Ever
Dan Dinello Informed Comment Compromising the safety of America’s food supply, the consequences of RFK’s disembowelment of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the…
California Democrats Keep Selling “Medicare for All” — While Protecting the System That Profits From Sickness
Joshua Scheer For nearly a decade, California Democrats have treated single-payer health care like a campaign hymn: sing it loudly during elections, bury it quietly once the donors call. Every…
The Medical-Industrial Complex Is Killing America While War Profiteers Get Rich
Joshua Scheer I posted an article from Truthout about Trump and healthcare, but nowhere in the piece did it mention Obama and the failure of his administration — and the…
Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again
The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. Sasha Abramsky for Truthout This article was originally published…
Climate Change Breeds Disease; Public Health Cuts Help It Spread
Gary Wilson, Struggle – La Lucha. Before anyone boarded the MV Hondius, the conditions for an outbreak were already forming across the landscapes where climate disruption, rodents and human activity…
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
Duaa Eldeib for ProPublica They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week…
GOP Centrists Rock the House, Force ACA Subsidy Showdown
By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition that will compel a floor vote…
Healthcare Is Hard, Lying Republicans Make It Harder
Dean Baker Beat The Press for The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) During his first term, after repeatedly promising the country a terrific health care plan, Donald Trump…
‘People Are Going to Die’ If Republicans Let ACA Subsidies End, Warns AOC
By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams The US House of Representatives is set to vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies next week, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned Friday that…
Senate GOP Healthcare Plan Decried as ‘Utter Joke’ That Would Devastate Sick Americans
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Republican healthcare proposal that’s set for a vote in the US Senate on Thursday would not prevent insurance premiums from skyrocketing for tens…
Duct Tape Can’t Fix This: The Fight for Medicare for All and ACA Survival
By: Joshua Scheer In between two Common Dreams articles, they reported a tweet from Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen telling us what we already know: the time is now for…
‘Time Is Ticking’: GOP Lawmakers Urged to Back Healthcare Tax Credit Extension
By: Brett Wilkins Original for Common Dreams With less than a month remaining before Affordable Care Act healthcare tax credits are set to expire—which would cause monthly premiums to soar…
Necropolitics and Healthcare: The High Cost of Life in America
Melissa’s original article, which inspired this podcast, is printed in full below as well. Happy Thanksgiving. In this eye-opening episode, host Joshua Scheer dives deep into the heart-wrenching realities of…