Most Chileans recently voted out the remnants of military dictator Augusto Pinochet, along with Milton Friedman’s policies and many U.S. interventions. They are at work on a radically new Constitution. In the United States, former ...
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary ...
An estimated 500,000 Americans every year are driven into bankruptcy due to medical bills or missed work from illness. A report from Gallup published earlier this month demonstrates the consequences of the United States’ exceptionally ...
South Carolina’s new Medicaid work requirement will force recipients to file a monthly report stating that they have been employed, searched for a job, attended training or classes, or volunteered. The Trump administration approved South ...
“We don’t have any basis or any evidence for calling this a hot labor market.” – Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Despite strong job growth and a 50-year low unemployment rate, nearly half of all American ...
Two bills attempting to lower prescription drug costs are making progress in Congress and show promising signs of bipartisan support. Americans pay exponentially more for prescription drugs than citizens of other developed countries, and spending ...
An executive order signed by President Trump to expand Medicare Advantage is being criticized for expanding the scope of Medicare plans contracted out to private companies. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in ...
A new report from the Sunlight Foundation documented 26 instances in which references to the Affordable Care Act were removed or altered on government websites. A new detailed report from the Sunlight Foundation claims the ...
“To see these aggressive, and even predatory, collection strategies affect everyday teachers, farmers, even nurses — it’s heartbreaking and it’s wrong and it needs to stop.” After ProPublica revealed a nonprofit Christian hospital filed thousands ...
More older Americans are opting to die at home, often with the emotional support of a home care worker. (By Cati Coe, The Conversation) President Trump wants the U.S. immigration system to shift away from ...
In a British-style system, the government fully owns, operates, and staffs all health care facilities. (By Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation) The role of government in the U.S. health care system has been contentious long before ...
“People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country.” (By Inequality.org) Day in and day out, American ...
“We the public, we the people, developed this drug, we paid for this drug. There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it.” (Common Dreams) During a House hearing ...
A “reverse migrant caravan” of Americans travel every day into Mexico for affordable health care. According to a report from TruthOut, thousands of Americans cross the border every day into Mexico to access affordable dental care ...
“There’s just a lot of cost associated with the medical space, and it has become a very important category on GoFundMe.” According to numerous polls, one in four Americans report that the biggest worry they ...
Nirmal Mulye, founder and president of Nostrum Pharmaceuticals, is quoted in a Financial Times article on Tuesday saying that he has a moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price. Mulye told Financial ...
Riding His Harley to Abolish Medical Debt To many of the families who are helped, medical debt forgiveness may mean the difference between having adequate food and heat or going to bed hungry and cold. ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance In this episode of KVoice of Resistance, we cover a boatload of news you are not hearing beneath the noise and chaos of the White House. We ...
Now hopes to repeal Obamacare have been rekindled with the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Amendment. (The Conversation, by Simon Haeder, West Virginia University. At the end of July, the nation held its collective breath as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
Drug expiration dates: hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. This story ...
Why Market Competition Has Not Brought Down Health Care Costs (Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst). It is easier than ever to buy stuff. You can purchase almost anything on Amazon with a click, and it ...
The live oral polio vaccine is mutating and replicating wild polio. Polio is rare, very rare thanks to modern medicine. However, for the first time ever mutated forms of the oral polio vaccine paralyzed more ...
President Trump responds to the withdrawal of the Republican health care plan. He says “the best thing we can do is let Obamacare explode.” Is that really the best thing we can do for the ...
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