Just Work: 800 Down in Minnesota, 47 Million More to Go Nationwide
This fight for a decent job with affordable health care coverage is not a question of should; it's a question of how and when.
Health Care
AFL-CIO Survey Turns Politics of Health Care Reform Upside Down
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
or candidates up and down the ticket, the question now is only how far they are willing to go and--our unsolicited advice is they had best go all the way, if they want to be elected, that is.
Stop That Patient! (Or the Corpocracy Rules, Part 1)
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
arge hospitals are trying to go through to squash the smaller guys, using arguments like "conflict of interest" because the smaller hospitals are owned by physicians. Shouldn't healthcare consumers be able to comparison shop hospitals?
A Company In Need Of Change
David Nassar | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
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Every day Wal-Mart refuses to put enough money forward to adequately fund their employees health care, and associates pay the price.
Separate And Unequal: U.S. Health Care and the Republican Response
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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The problem of the uninsured, and the ethnic and racial divide in American health care are closely related and both cut to the heart of what it means to be a just society in the 21st century.
The Power of Patient Advocacy
Deborah Burger | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
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We're the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have a guaranteed, single-payer health care system. The freedom to go to any doctor or any hospital. It's not a dream, it's legislation.
Elizabeth Edwards: Favors Clinton's Health Plan, Says Obama's 'Not Universal,' Slams McCain's As Ineffective
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
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Elizabeth Edwards continued her passionate advocacy of universal health care on today's morning shows, appearing on both The Today Show and Morning Jo...
Universal Health Care Doesn't Mean We're Entitled to All the Health Care in the Universe
Russ Wellen | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
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Who doesn't want health insurance? A few 20-somethings too blinded by their partying to picture the illnesses they're courting? For many others, the heart is willing, but the pocketbook is weak.
Why Not Single Payer? Part 5: The Single Payer Health Care Movement and the Plans of the Democratic Presidential Nominee
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
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If a Democrat is elected president, the progressive mass movement should use the opportunity to move beyond their compromised health care plans to push for Medicare For All.
Experience Creating Transformational Change: What Bill Had and Lost, Apparently Never Shared With Hillary, and Barack May Know Naturally
Steven G. Brant | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
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Hillary either didn't know about the Arkansas Quality Management Task Force, knew and didn't care, or knew but didn't recognize the significance of what she was seeing.
Will Wal-Mart Do the Right Thing for Brain-Damaged Ex-Employee Debbie Shank's Family?
David Nassar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Debbie Shank used to stock shelves at night for Wal-Mart so she could spend time in the afternoons with her three sons. Now she lives in a nursing home, requires around-the-clock medical care and owes Wal-Mart almost $500,000.
Just Work: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Scott Hanson | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
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Even for people who haven't gone down the challenging and forever rewarding path of organizing a union, the California Nurses' Association's strategy doesn't make any sense.
Drug Patent Rules Must Allow Exceptions for Public Health
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
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The pharmaceutical companies argue that they need to protect their patents in order to fund the research and development that produces new drugs.
The Social Determinants of Health
Merrill Goozner | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
Unless the nation grapples with what are the underlying causes of ill-health in this society, it will never get health care costs under control.
Ain't That A Trip: Our Water Is Drugged
Derek Beres | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
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Members of pharmaceutical companies say that the amount of drugs found are so minute that there are not to be considered a health concern. Well what would you expect them to say?
John McCain's Health Plan - Don't Get Sick in America
Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
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With all the fireworks over health care in the Democratic primaries, John McCain has managed to stay under the radar on our national healthcare nightmare.
Whatever You Do, Just Don't Get Sick
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
What's amazing to me is how many people I know don't really have doctors per se.
U.S. Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans Update: A Side-by-Side Comparison
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
With our current sick care system, Americans cannot afford -- socially, politically, economically, or otherwise -- to remain on the sidelines.
In Search of Teachers, Not Presidents
Derek Beres | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living
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Can you imagine a candidate stepping up on the next debate to declare that we can begin to heal ourselves through a whole foods, plant-based diet?
Progressive Solutions to America's Health-Care Crisis
Sen. Tom Daschle | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
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I have proposed a Federal Health Board, which could address health care problems and would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board for the banking industry.
We Don't Just Need A Democratic President. We Need a Movement to Change Washington.
Robert Creamer | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics
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Obama's campaign has demonstrated clearly his ability to lead a movement of millions of average Americans. Leading a movement is not what Clinton is cut out to do.
Clinton, Obama Spar over Dental Plans
Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
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With both candidates in agreement on a broad range of issues, the two rivals appear to be hoping that late-deciding voters will support the candidate who offers the best dental.
Child Poverty and How to Stem America's Prison Madness
Dan Brown | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
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America's disproportionate investment in corrections rather than prevention maintains what the Children's Defense Fund aptly calls the "Cradle to Prison Pipeline."
Betrayed
Sherman Yellen | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
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There is no godly reason why men such as my nephew John, who worked as a first responder at the World Trade Center site, have to fight the government for proper medical care.
It's All About Priorities, Senator McCain
Jon Soltz | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
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What are Americans going to have to sacrifice if he has his way on Iraq? Health care? Decent jobs? We can't do it all, but John McCain seems to pretend that we can.
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