Medicare

What makes US culture reject health care as a human right while defending the right to buy guns in a supermarket?

Can progressives use backlash against Trump's regressive health policies to accelerate the fight for Medicare for All?

Medicaid covers intensive, evidence-based community mental health services and should be expanded.

Elders and advocates are mobilizing on several fronts for comprehensive social support reforms for aging Americans.

This debate served to demonstrate just how far to the right the political dialogue in this country has tacked.

Those organizing the debate want to see Social Security and Medicare cut, so they are framing the topic in a way that cuts to these programs will seem like …

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?