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US healthcare after COVID-19: What’s next and how could it be …

WebIn March, the Medicare for All act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives with a record amount of cosponsors. Public support for a single-payer …

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Four steps toward reclaiming public medicine for public …

WebThe four steps. To do so, we must take these four steps: 1. Codify open science practices that accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and strengthen the evidence …

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Primary health care is in critical condition. Making primary care

WebThe strain that the COVID-19 pandemic is placing on our entire healthcare system is threatening to decimate the primary care sector—the doctor’s offices and …

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All health is public health: Busting the myths of choice and …

WebMarch 20, 2021. Health & Wellbeing Democratic Ownership. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual …

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Single-Payer Would Be a Good Start, but Real Health Equity Means

WebYet we must remember that countries with single-payer systems can still struggle with significant health equity issues. For example, while Canadians generally …

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Health innovation policy for the people

Webtwitter. Healthcare innovation policy in the United States has yielded some benefits but has also done harm, specifically when it comes o health equity. This paper …

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A Nobel Prize-winning cancer therapy will be unaffordable for …

WebLast week, researchers James Allison and Tasuku Honjo were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on cancer immunotherapies, heralded by …

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Understanding and seizing the momentum for public ownership

WebDuring the panel, “Public Ownership: Understanding and Seizing the Momentum,” Trinity Tran, co-founder and lead organizer of California Public Banking …

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Renewable Energy is Preventative Medicine

WebThe benefits to community health would be enormous. For instance, by cutting just their electricity emissions 30 percent by 2030, the US healthcare sector could …

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Inequality is killing us — literally

WebWe also know that these disparities in health are very costly to us as a nation, with some estimating they come to at least $300 billion dollars a year in lost …

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Revisiting community control of land and housing in the wake of

WebThe United States is experiencing an acute, long-term land and housing crisis. Decades of racist and exclusionary public policy along with rising housing costs in many …

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Community Benefit Agreement

WebDescription A community benefit agreement (CBA) is a contract between a developer and community representatives committing the developer to fulfill specific …

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Darrick Hamilton

WebDarrick Hamilton is the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and an economics professor at Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of …

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Resource: ReThink Health

WebResource: ReThink Health. November 11, 2015. Health & Wellbeing. ReThink Health awakens change-makers to what is possible. They spur big-picture …

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Fighting gentrification and displacement: Emerging best practices

WebThe Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and …

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Shovel Ready Green Jobs: The Job Guarantee and Climate Resiliency

WebLow income communities are often the first and hardest hit by climate change because of their lack of access to economic stability. The jobs guarantee could create a …

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La Clínica del Pueblo

WebOn May 9th, 2017 the Next System Project’s Cecilia Gingerich spoke with Alicia Wilson, Executive Director of La Clinica del Pueblo, a health organization based in …

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Multi-stakeholder cooperative

WebA multi-stakeholder cooperative ( MSC) includes more than one membership group—e.g. workers, consumers, users, or community members—in the governance and …

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Akilah Watkins-Butler

WebAkilah received the prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship in 2009 to complete her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois. She also holds an …

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Worker cooperatives

WebFounded in 1985, CHCA is the largest worker cooperative in the US, with over 2,000 employees. In a sector (home care) often characterized by exploitative and …

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