Health Care

Dr. Philip Caper explains the importance of viewing health care as a right, instead of a privilege.

Despite a strong opening, legislation to allow paid sick days fell one vote short in Philadelphia at the dismay of hundreds of workers.

Gaius Publius: This is not the full rollback to Medicare drug price negotiation we want, but it's a good start.

The California Nurses Association has already raised concerns about the ‘doc bots’ that are showing up in some California hospitals.

Any success in maintaining disability benefits will require a movement of poor people focused on keeping them.

Recent report on massive drug shortages in hospitals around the country reveals corporate greed is more valued than the health of patients.

James Boyce: Industrial agriculture threatening existence of small farmers growing corn in Mexico and Guatemala; potatoes in Peru and the Andes; rice in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia - farmers …

Advocates have helped pass paid sick days laws in cities like San Francisco, Washington DC, Seattle and Portland, but big business has been pushing back.

A major new study published in The Lancet makes clear that austerity policies adopted in the European south have produced health care crises.

Thanks to the psychiatric drug revolution, inmates in our correctional facilities recieve drugs instead of therapy.