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Newsom Announces California Is Going to Start Making Its Own Low-Cost Insulin
“In California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication,” the governor said.
Manchin Is Pushing Even More Harmful Means Testing for Health Care
As Manchin blocks Medicare expansion, West Virginians are resorting to desperate measures like pulling their own teeth.
Tomorrow’s March on Washington Will Target Poverty, Voter Suppression, Climate
The Poor People's Campaign will lead a march to demand the government address key issues facing low-income communities.
Medicare for All Could Have Prevented 338,000 COVID Deaths in the US
A study also shows that universal health coverage could have saved $459 billion in medical costs during 2020 alone.
More Than 100 Million People in US Have Health Care Debt, Study Shows
A new investigation concludes that our health care system is systematically pushing patients into debt on a mass scale.
Burned Out by COVID and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Are Unionizing
Residents are demanding better working conditions, wages and benefits.
Capitalism Is to Blame for How Quickly US COVID Deaths Reached 1 Million
The idea of obeying science when it might cost multibillion-dollar corporations their market share was heresy.
Mississippians on Medicaid Lose Coverage 60 Days After Birth
Postpartum depression and many birth-related infections often don’t have time to show up before care is cut off.
Resident Physicians Are Unionizing. They Must Challenge For-Profit Health Care.
Physicians need to see how exploitative working conditions stem from a system constantly looking to increase profits.
Sanders Introduces Medicare for All as Solution to “Dysfunctional” Health System
“This is an issue not just of health care. This is an issue about what kind of nation we are,” Sanders said.