Medicare

Our economy relies heavily on exploiting immigrant labor but our welfare state systematically excludes immigrants.

Drug prices in the US are already approaching a crisis point for many patients unable to afford their prices, often despite being insured.

If people understand what the Affordable Care Act is, they are likely to want to protect it.

Our taxes pay for most of the front end (riskier) research on drugs, so why do private companies get to set the price?

Hillary Clinton's talk about expanding the Medicare program to people in their 50s sounds like a step toward Medicare for all, but it isn't.

Hillary Clinton's attacks on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan could do long-term damage to the movement for universal health care.

Legal barriers for sick workers can be insurmountable; costs are shifted to families and federal programs such as Medicare.

We should extend Medicare coverage to everyone, and start treating health care as a right.

If the budget deal is approved, a new Pentagon slush fund would enable the military budget to rise even further above legislated caps.

Recent proposals by presidential candidates to regulate drug prices may be long shots due to Big Pharma's lobbying.