Health insurance

Ady Barkan and Bernie Sanders

Ady Barkan Refuses to Stop Fighting for Health Care for All Ady Barkan Refuses to Stop Fighting for Health Care for All

The progressive activist, a leader in the movement to win Medicare for All, launches a new series of interviews on health care with presidential candidates.

Aug 30, 2019 / Winnie Wong

Utah Medicaid

Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer

Utah voters approved Medicaid expansion. Why hasn’t it been implemented?

Aug 21, 2019 / David M. Perry

Medicare for All rally

There Is No ‘Nursing Shortage.’ There’s Just a Good Nursing Job Shortage. There Is No ‘Nursing Shortage.’ There’s Just a Good Nursing Job Shortage.

The solution lies in radically rethinking how we provide health care.

Aug 7, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Protesters demonstrate

How Medicare for All Would Stop Hospitals Like Hahnemann From Closing How Medicare for All Would Stop Hospitals Like Hahnemann From Closing

Taking the profit motive out of health care would ensure that hospitals could provide excellent care to all who need it.

Jul 16, 2019 / Adam Gaffney

‘It’s a Terrible Existence’: The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants

‘It’s a Terrible Existence’: The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants ‘It’s a Terrible Existence’: The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants

Not qualifying for regular dialysis in most states, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are forced to live in constant agony.

Jul 8, 2019 / Eilís O’Neill

Baltimore row houses

Suicide Is Becoming America’s Latest Epidemic Suicide Is Becoming America’s Latest Epidemic

Suicide rates in the US have skyrocketed as both income inequality and the percent of uninsured adults continue to grow.

Jun 18, 2019 / Rajan Menon

Bernie Sanders & Kristin Gillibrand Medicare for All

Medicare for All Needs a Change of Message Medicare for All Needs a Change of Message

Single payer is essential, but most voters still don’t get that.

Jun 6, 2019 / Colin McAuliffe

Ben Taub Hospital

Health Care in the US Should Be Affordable and Accessible Health Care in the US Should Be Affordable and Accessible

America’s broken health-care system extorts its patients just so they can access a basic human right.

May 9, 2019 / Beverly Gologorsky

Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions.

Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions. Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions.

If you think the fight with insurance companies is tough, just wait until single-payer advocates have to go head-to-head with doctors.

Apr 26, 2019 / Mike Konczal

AOC Smiling

In the Bronx, AOC Advocates for a ‘VA for All’ In the Bronx, AOC Advocates for a ‘VA for All’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez breaks with Democratic Party orthodoxy and decries the privatization of the Veterans Administration.

Apr 18, 2019 / Jasper Craven

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