Paul Newman

Single Payer Health Care is Having its Moment, One Vaccine at a Time

REBECCA KOLINS GIVAN , ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RUTGERS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONSON 4/9/21 AT 7:00 AM EDT “The COVID-19 vaccination program is giving many Americans their first glimpse of an alternative to our current health care system. The horror stories we’ve grown used to—uninsured and underinsured Americans dying because they cannot afford life-sustaining medications—simply do […]

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Hands off Cuba

    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 &

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Ed Yong on the “Disgraceful” U.S. Pandemic Response & How Medicare for All can Help

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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Medicare for All: A Prescription Against Deadly COVID Capitalism 08/06/2020

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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Small Steps Not Enough to Get to Universal Healthcare

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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