Truthout
Health Care
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Mental Health Movement Resists Chicago Austerity Measures
Chicago Shuts Down 6 of the Cityu2019s 12 public mental health centers, moves towards privatization of services.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
The Price of Democracy
There is one arena in which the United States is a world-class spender where youu2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would argue that we get world-class results for …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Lobby Responsibly
The big beer brewers often admonish us imbibers of their products to
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Democrat to Offer a “Lifeline” for Single-Payer Healthcare
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds theyu2019re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Pennsylvania Seeks to “Reprioritize” Funding Away From Planned Parenthood
Anti-choice politicians in the state of Pennsylvania are attempting to change the way family planning and health care funds for low income women are allocated, putting Planned Parenthood affiliates …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
The Ills of Money-Driven Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, nine medical specialty societies released a list of 45 medical tests and procedures they believed are significantly overused. On the heels of this announcement …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Feeding Obesity
Attention foodies: There's a new craze in Cuisine World, and it's going 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the much-publicized healthy-eating movement. It has nothing to do with …
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/Occupying-Different-Worlds-NATO-and-Its-Citizens-308x300.jpg)
Occupying Different Worlds: NATO and Its Citizens
Author Michael Hastings: The takeaway I got from the protesters was that this money could be better spent at home than on these different foreign policy adventures.
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/Hundreds-of-Protesters-Head-to-Chicago-Mayors-House-to-Oppose-Health-Clinic-Closures-308x300.jpg)
|
Hundreds of Protesters Head to Chicago Mayor’s House to Oppose Health Clinic Closures
Hosting NATO will cost the city an estimated $55 million, and health advocates claim only $2-3 million is needed to keep these facilities open.
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/One-System-for-All-Universal-Access-to-Health-Care-308x300.jpg)
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
(Photo courtesy of Julie Castro)Julie Castro is a young doctor from France, a country that proves that it is possible for a nation to offer quality health care for …