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Guess what the three Democrats blocking lower medication prices have in common?

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By David Sirota and Andrew Perez   The three conservative Democratic lawmakers threatening to kill their party’s drug pricing legislation have raked in roughly $1.6m of campaign cash from donors in the pharmaceutical and health products industries. One of the lawmakers is the House’s single largest recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash this election cycle, and […]

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Facing Thousands of Dollars in Medical Expense

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Christopher Rowland Yesterday at 5:41 p.m. EDT Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus

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Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed

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BY VISHAL KHETPAL SEPT 07, 20215:45 AM Recently, a local news station in Houston ran a story about a man who passed away while waiting for a hospital bed. The story went viral. Daniel Wilkinson, a 46-year-old veteran who served two deployments in Afghanistan, presented to a community hospital a few doors down from his home

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CalCare Resolution Passes with the Los Angeles City Council

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LACC PASSES CALCARE RESOLUTION!!! 📣❤🎉✊🤙 YESSSSS!!!! The LA City Council just passed a resolution in support of CalCare AB1400!!! The largest city in CA wants state Medicare for All, so healthcare is guaranteed for all CA residents, regardless of income, age, employment or immigration status! LA first, CA next. 🏄🏽 LET’S DO THIS!! ORGANIZE. AGITATE.

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Nurses’ Campaign to Win CalCare: Our Plan for Fall 2021

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Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses have long understood the need for single-payer, guaranteed health care for all. Nurses know all too well the deep failings of our fragmented, profit-driven health care system, and California is no exception. 3.2 million Californians have no health insurance at all. Over a third of Californians report delaying or skipping necessary care

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Fed Up with Dems, Thousands March Demanding Medicare for All

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Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.   Activists in more than 50 cities across the United States marched and rallied on July 24 to demand a Medicare for All or single-payer health care system. With Congress and the White House more focused on

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Hospitals charge huge ‘trauma’ fees to treat people with minor injuries

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By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News   Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center

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