I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under America’s for-profit private insurance formula, with Canada’s single-payer paradigm.
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RESOUNDING SUCCESS OF THE WORLD CARAVAN BY LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA. These caravans, the largest public protests in LA to defend Cuba’s sovereignty in a decade, urged Mayor Garcetti and Gov. Newsom to invite Cuban medical personnel here to assist in the pandemic crises, to end the blockade, travel ban, normalize cultural, educational &
Hospitalization records for patients with health problems other than COVID-19 suggest that that Black adults have poorer access to outpatient care than their white counterparts. Above, an outpatient room at a UC San Diego Health clinic last year.(Kyle Dykes / UC San Diego Health)
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“I don’t think in a social revolution you can always retain support of the moderates.”
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As the United States experiences the world’s worst outbreak of COVID-19, we speak with Ed Yong, science writer for The Atlantic, who warned of the country’s unpreparedness for a viral outbreak in 2018. Now he says “it’s truly shocking and disgraceful” how badly the pandemic has been handled in the United States, and blames a
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“We stand with the grassroots activists who understand that the party must stand for extending Medicare to everyone.”
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
JULY 31ST,2020
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also number one in COVID-19 infections and deaths. As White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Deborah Birx warned last weekend, “It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in
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Imagine having to sneak out of the doctor’s office because you couldn’t afford to pay the bill, or having perfect strangers tearfully confide in you that they can no longer afford their mental health treatment. These are just two of the reasons people gave for supporting single-payer, government-financed health insurance during a pre-Democratic National Convention
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A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that
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