Truthout
Health Care
Shouldn’t We Pay Nannies and People Who Care for Our Parents a Living Wage?
A recent US Supreme Court ruling weakening the unions of state-funded workers limits the ability of many domestic workers who care for our most vulnerable to win higher pay, …
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Maternal Deaths Due to HIV a Grim Reality
From Jun. 30 to Jul. 1, 800 health experts, officials and activists will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the third Partners' Forum around the Action Plan for Women's …
Supreme Court Backs Hobby Lobby – and Corporate Personhood
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.
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Will India Be the Uber of the Pharmaceutical Industry?
If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.
How Vermont Got a Single-Payer Health Care Bill: A Non-Electoral History
This is a crucial year in Vermont's fight to enact its single-payer health care law, with design and financing in the works, and while progressives are credited, that narrative …
“Open Season on Reproductive Health Care Clinics”: A Clinic Escort Responds to McCullen Ruling
“Terrorizing those seeking legal medical procedures is now an important First Amendment expression of ‘free speech,’ according to the Supreme Court Justices.”
To Fix VA Waits, Hire More Staff
Whatu2019s causing the long waits and
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Expand Medicare to Serve all Veterans
Medicare is approaching its 50th anniversary as one of the most durable, successful and popular federal programs ever created. Do our veterans deserve any less?
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The GOP Is the Pro-Death Party
We've known for a while now that suicide rates tend to increase during times of Conservatives governments, when money is going to corporations and the wealthy elite, at the …
Among Doctors With Unusual Billing Patterns, Disciplinary Actions Common
Media reports have uncovered doctors who only bill for the most complicated and high-priced office visits, and ambulance companies in New Jersey who ferry patients to and from dialysis …