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Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance By Jessica Glenza January 11, 2024   People with health insurance may now represent the majority of debtors American hospitals struggle to collect from, according to medical billing analysts.   This marks a sea change from just a few years ago, when people with […]

Assemblymember Ash Kalra, California Nurses Association Introduce CalCare Legislation February 7, 2024   SACRAMENTO – Today, California Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José), with the crucial support of California Nurses Association (CNA), introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 2200, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. AB 2200 would enact a comprehensive framework of governance, benefits, program

Hawaiʻi Health Workers Call for End to Genocide By Selena-Seiji Yamada February 12, 2024   Dr Hammam Alloh, a 36-year-old nephrologist, was killed in an airstrike on his family home on November 13. Prior to his death, when asked why he was not leaving his patients at the Al Shifa Hospital, he replied: “If I

Why single-payer might actually make it to Newsom’s desk By Rachel Bluth February 7, 2024   TIMING IS EVERYTHING: On paper, it wouldn’t seem like the perfect moment for California Democrats to finally pass universal health care.   It’s an election year and the state is facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. Any single-payer scheme would

“Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War Interview with Dr. Seema Jilani by Democracy Now! February 6, 2024   Democracy Now! speaks with Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks in Central Gaza volunteering in the Al-Aqsa Hospital emergency room. “I saw the fall of a hospital

Obamacare Created Big Medicine By The Lever January 29, 2024   The dominant trend of US social life over the last fifteen years is a stagnating, and then declining, life span. There are many reasons for this trend, such as violence, diet, suicide, drug addiction, and auto accidents. But for many reasons, our monopolistic health

“Legacy”: Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America Interview with Dr. Uché Blackstock by Democracy Now! February 1, 2024   On the first day of Black History Month, we take a look at how racism shapes healthcare in America. We speak with Dr. Uché Blackstock about her new book, Legacy: A Black

Uvalde Failure: DOJ Report Finds 377 Officers Waited 77 Mins as 19 Kids, 2 Teachers Killed by 1 AR-15 Interview with Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez by Amy Goodman January 19, 2024   A sweeping Justice Department report exposes the “cascading failures” of the police response to the 2022 Uvalde elementary school mass shooting when

California expands Medicaid to all eligible undocumented individuals By Jakob Emerson December 28, 2023   Starting Jan. 1, California will become the first state to offer Medicaid coverage to all eligible undocumented individuals, Cal Matters reported Dec. 28.   The state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, first expanded coverage to undocumented children in 2015 and to individuals

Nearly half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers’ pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers By Wendell Potter January 5th, 2024   As members of Congress get back to business after the holidays, they seem to be poised to pass legislation that would address some of the abuses of pharmacy