A Death Every 12 Minutes: The Price of Not Having Medicare for All
In 2002, that more than 18,000 Americans between the ages of 19 and 64 were dying each year as a result of being uninsured. The new number is two and a half times that figure.
In 2002, that more than 18,000 Americans between the ages of 19 and 64 were dying each year as a result of being uninsured. The new number is two and a half times that figure.
John Geyman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Republicans have fought against Medicare from the very beginning. But in their strategy to kill health care reform, they are all of a sudden sounding like defenders of Medicare against the evils of big government.
Chicago Sun-Times | ABDON M. PALLASCH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago
The state's largest union, the Service Employees International Union, will announce today it is teaming up with the Teamsters in an effort unprecedent...
John Geyman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Organized medicine has become so fragmented that no one group speaks for the profession. In fact, some groups have endorsed major health care reform.
Jerry Waxman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Senators like Bill Nelson need to realize that they can't just automatically take Democratic voters for granted: if they are going to seek reelection they are going to have to earn their votes.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
You have to wonder if there shouldn't be a penalty for pundits who make self-assured predictions that are regularly wrong, and yet continue to be treated as if they know what they're talking about.
Tim Ellis | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Despite an impressive showing by Congressman Massa and activists on both sides, I walked away from this event convinced that the town halls are nothing more than sideshow theatre.
Chris Shiflett | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Our job -- liberals, progressives, union leaders, public health advocates, community groups, and even rock-and-roll performers -- is to challenge the lies and distortions put out there by the Fox News crowd.
Elana Levin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
In case you needed any more convincing that we need the public option...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Union officials continued to receive a barrage of threats on Friday evening and into Saturday punctuated by warnings that if organizers were sent to c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
One of the country's largest unions has been hit by a wave of hostile calls and even death threats from people upset with its involvement in town-hall...
Art Levine | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
Even as debunked smears about health care continue, such as the claim the bill aims to kill old people through "death care," progressives are being hamstrung by mainstream media outlets.
Randy Shaw | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Stern's optimism runs counter to the facts. No date for negotiations with UNITE HERE has been set and Stern has not publicly renounced his demand for binding arbitration.
Art Levine | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
GOP officials have emphasized fighting gay marriage, supporting prayer in schools, and banning abortion as the keys to promoting family values.
ZP Heller | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
100 Quad City factory employees risk losing their jobs if Wells Fargo doesn't extend tens of thousands of dollars in credit to continue day-to-day operating costs.
The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
A top union is demanding that an Arkansas TV station yank a new ad being run by the "Dr. Evil" of pro-business lobbyists that depicts workers as mobbe...
AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Eight health care workers blocking access to the Illinois House have been removed by Capitol police officers. The home- and...
Randy Shaw | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
In a dramatic blow to SEIU's efforts to raid UNITE HERE members and jurisdictions, 15 of the nation's leading unions pledged Monday to provide UNITE H...
Art Levine | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
If the public wants a public option and the non-competitive private insurance industry can't deliver affordable, accessible health care, what's keeping Congress from backing it strongly right now?
Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.23.2009 | Comedy
A new group calling itself Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine (HAARM) has launched a website to promote its efforts to derail health care re...
Art Levine | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
The union movement enlisted a powerful ally in its drive for workers' rights: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, following the guidance of, yes, the Pope.
Randy Shaw | Posted 07.23.2009 | Home
SEIU defeated NUHW by 233 votes in their bitter election over Fresno's 10,000 home care workers, but now faces a situation analogous to the United Sta...
Art Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
What's especially galling is how fervently businesses embrace arbitration when it allows them to avoid being held accountable for negligence towards employees or the defrauding of consumers.
John Geyman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics