Sunday, December 22, 2024

Tag: Medicare For All

Is speaking up for Medicare for All a crime?

As a longtime D.C.-area advocate, I’ve visited Capitol Hill and Members of Congress many times. But never before have I felt I...

Healthcare ad spending exceeds $65 million in 2019 as insurance industry...

An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money organizations, the insurance industry, and...

Watch dying activist Andy Barkan’s “heartfelt” and “moving” conversation with Bernie...

Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential...

Rethinking Medicare for All – slightly

In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.

Ex-health insurance exec: Industry is using decades-old scare tactics to fight...

"There are Americans all over this country who do not get the care that they need."

Stuck in a rut of their own making, progressive democrats need...

Until progressive Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren forthrightly declare that Yes! socializing health care by making the government the...

‘Bad policy and bad politics’: Kamala Harris accused of hijacking Medicare...

"Harris calls her plan 'Medicare for All,' but it's not even close."

The cleaning lady

She works hard for her money, as the song relates. She's the cleaning lady, the one who gets on her knees and...

The bs about Medicare-for-all has to stop!

It is increasingly clear that the wagons have circled both in the Democratic National Committee and in the news media to shut...

Medicare for all would save money — and lives

One night a few years ago, my partner woke up delirious with fever, a bright rash, and joint pain so bad he...

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Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...

Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.

Pregnant woman in labor cited under Kentucky anti-homelessness law

Pregnant homeless woman in labor ticketed under Kentucky’s anti-camping law, sparking national outrage over the criminalization of homelessness.

Elon Musk for Speaker of the House? Republicans float billionaire amid spending bill fight

Republicans propose Elon Musk as Speaker of the House after his role in sinking a spending bill, raising unprecedented ethical and governance concerns.

Israeli soldiers enforce kill zone in Gaza, targeting civilians and leaving bodies to rot

Israeli forces implement open-fire policies in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, targeting civilians and leaving corpses uncollected as a warning to others.

Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated

The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.