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Rage Against American Healthcare

WEBThe disgrace of American healthcare, he argues, is a betrayal of American values. “Our malady is physical illness and the political evil that surrounds it,” he writes. “We are ill in …

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Abortion Is Healthcare: Lessons From a Public Hospital

WEBAmy Zanoni ▪ Winter 2023 Pro- and anti-abortion protesters gather outside an abortion clinic in Chicago on April 27, 1992. (Stacia Timonere/Getty Images) Since the …

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Bring Back Health Planning

WEBBring Back Health Planning. We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally …

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Crisis and Opportunity

WEBCrisis and Opportunity. The left will not live forever on the sidelines of political power. When we have an opportunity to remake our healthcare system, we must be sure to seize it. …

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“What’s Actually Going on in Our Nursing Homes”: An Interview …

WEBGabriel Winant ▪ Fall 2020 Shantonia Jackson's colleague Camelia Kirkwood died during the pandemic, weeks before her planned retirement. (John Michael Snowden) …

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Can We Have Universal Health Care

WEBRoger Bybee Winter 2024. Barack Obama aspires to be a “transformative” president, with his hopes particularly fixed on America’s finally achieving a universal health care …

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Therapy With a Human Face

WEBHannah Zeavin ▪ Winter 2022 Sigmund, Anna, and Eve Freud (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) . In the universe of Eliza, a video game and …

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As Florida Reopens, the Health Crisis in Immokalee Deepens

WEBIn April, we spoke with Oscar Otzoy of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) about their fight for access to testing and healthcare. Shortly after we spoke, the …

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The Perils of Private Welfare: Job-Based Benefits and American

WEBSince high-wage workers enjoy both more generous benefits and higher rates of coverage, private benefits widen the gap. The low-wage worker claims about …

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Health Care in Taiwan: Why Can’t the United States Learn

WEBTaiwan is a smaller (twenty-one million people), more compact country than the United States, but the NHI provides many pointers for Americans attempting to secure full …

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The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

WEBNick Serpe March 18, 2021. Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh (Wikimedia Commons) Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this …

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America’s Health Care System is Even More Broken than You Think

WEBChristy Ford Chapin June 14, 2017. AMA leaders invented the insurance company model as an alternative to government intervention. Above, AMA officers lobbying against a …

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Undocumented, Uninsured, Unafraid

WEBUndocumented, Uninsured, Unafraid. In the fight for healthcare for all, single-payer and immigrant rights activists face serious obstacles, but also the opportunity to …

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Who Closes Hospitals

WEBIn November, M Health Fairview, one of the largest healthcare providers in the Minneapolis–St. Paul region, proposed closing the oldest hospital in Minnesota, the …

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Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights

WEBA caucus of black feminists at a 1994 pro-choice conference coined the term “reproductive justice,” a framework that includes not only a woman’s right not to have a child, but also …

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Alinsky for the Left: The Politics of Community Organizing

WEBMike Miller has been a community organizer for fifty years and is executive director of ORGANIZE! Training Center (OTC). He is the author of A Community Organizer’s Tale: …

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Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global …

WEBSaskia Sassen seems to agree. Her new book, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, sets out to dispel the myths peddled by both sides of the …

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Socialized Love in the Face of Pandemic

WEBThe coronavirus pandemic has made universal healthcare a matter of urgency. We face an international calamity in which an injury to one is an injury to all. …

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The Class Politics of Teeth

WEBNationally, children’s utilization of dental services under Medicaid has improved since Satcher’s Oral Health in America report in 2000 and since the death of Deamonte Driver …

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The New Administration Can Stop Wage Theft-and Stimulate the …

WEBKim Bobo ▪ November 25, 2008 . President-elect Barack Obama and his team are going to have their hands full when they take the reins of government in January. Wage …

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Patents Against People: How Drug Companies Price Patients out of

WEBMichelle Chen ▪ Fall 2013 Protest against the unaffordability of Novartis drugs (Carlos Capote, 2007, Flick creative commons) . As our television screens toggle …

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