Is Public, Quality Healthcare Possible in the United States?
Healthcare workers in the US have long been fighting for a radical transformation of the current for-profit healthcare system in order to provide quality care to all.
America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of ‘Market’ Economics
The country’s flawed insurance model, driven by greed, leads to inefficiency, inequality, and denied care - a colossal scam that has sparked fury across the nation.
Hospital Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them for Positive Drug Tests
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
Capitalists Should Be Removed From All Our Systems, Not Just Health Care
Yes, “capitalists should never be allowed near a healthcare system.”
Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say
United and other insurers make a profit by restricting the claims they pay, so their profit motive goes directly against people’s need to get healthcare.
Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Is a Larger System of Corporate Rule
The violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns.
Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs
Private insurers profit by denying help to sick people. When a CEO was murdered, Americans said just how they feel about that system.
Millions Will See Rise in Health Insurance Premiums If Federal Subsidies Expire
The Trump administration is unlikely to extend aid that has cut the cost of exchange plans.
‘It Had to Be Done’: Luigi Mangione Manifesto Revealed
"A reminder: the U.S. has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy," the 26-year-old accused of assassinating a health insurance…
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Most working Americans have to pay Medicare taxes, but some of the richest figures on Wall Street have found a way to opt out, a ProPublica investigation found.
Poll: Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Say Government Should Ensure Health Care Coverage
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal health care.
Glenn Greenwald: Americans Rail Against Healthcare Industry After CEO’s Murder
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
‘Not Medically Necessary’: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
America’s largest insurers hire EviCore to make decisions on whether to pay for care for more than 100 million people.
‘Not Medically Necessary’: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
America’s largest insurers hire EviCore to make decisions on whether to pay for care for more than 100 million people.
Universal Health Care Was Big on the 2020 Democratic Platform. Where Is It Now?
Democrats ran on health care in 2020. In this year’s draft platform, it gets a handful of bullet points.