Truthout
Health Care
What if Tomorrow Your Insurance Company Controlled Your Lifestyle?
Your internet presence provides data about your health and diet, allowing insurers to estimate risk and how much you should pay.
Maya Schenwar | To Make Health Care for All a Reality, Stop Killing People
Much of our tax money that could be funding universal health care is instead funneled toward prisons, policing and war.
The Only Way the US Can Ever Get Affordable Health Care
The knives are out from the Republicans as well as Hillary Clinton to discredit the single-payer option with false information.
|
Insurers’ Push to Restrict Special Enrollment Periods Would Block Uninsured People
The reality is that too few eligible people are taking advantage of SEPs.
|
Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back
For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they're only good for shareholders.
Why Our Government Isn’t Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering
Why doesn't the government of a country as wealthy as the US provide for its people? Oppression is a profitable business.
In Europe, Are the Chemical Industry’s Interests Taking Precedence Over People’s Lives?
Journalist Stephane Horel discusses how industry lobbies have delayed the regulation of substances known to cause health problems.
|
Surely Hillary Clinton Knows Why Wall Street Pays Her
Hillary Clinton is surely aware that Wall Street won't give politicians millions without expecting something big in return.
The “State” of Health-Care Reform: Activists Push for Universal Primary Care in Vermont
Single-payer proponents in Vermont hope achieving universal primary care will be a step toward public health care for all.
Media Attacking Single-Payer Are Getting Paid Under Current Health System
Some cynics argue Sanders' support for a single-payer program is a pie-in-the-sky fantasy.