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Primary Care, Psychiatry And Public Health: What Do They Have In …

WEBJohn Geyman, M.D. is professor emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he served as Chairman of the …

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Moving to Universal Health Care, Beginning in the States

WEBOne of the greatest systemic failures in the U.S. is healthcare. Even after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act: + 26 million Americans, or 7.9% of the …

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The False Premise of Healthcare Hotspotting

WEBFrom a health systems standpoint, it is important to examine the original premise of hotspotting — reducing healthcare spending via reducing utilization — and …

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Health Care and Colonialism: A Sickness Unto Death

WEBNothing is immune from the stain of colonialism and its associated phenomena of racism. This includes the practice of medicine. Whether one is …

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The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being

WEBOne of these fascinating experiments, involving some 800 participants, used images of ladders to help show how levels of inequality can differ considerably from one …

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The Critical Link Between Poverty and Health

WEBby Cesar Chelala. Concern for the health of the poor is one of the critical issues in development. Poverty cannot be defined solely in terms of low or no income. …

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How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having …

WEBStill, two beliefs continue to resist universal health care. The first belief is that America is the greatest nation in the world, and hence our health care is better than …

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The Summer of Student Activist Protests

WEBAt many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of …

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Mexico Emerges as a Destination for Americans Seeking …

WEBWhen its six-week abortion ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, Florida joined nearly two dozen other U.S. states that ban abortion or greatly restrict it. These laws …

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New York Times Sinks to New Low in Its Psychiatric Drug Coverage

WEBEstablishment psychiatry, Big Pharma, and the mainstream media have acknowledged that a single antidepressant treatment does not work for the majority of …

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Improving Health in Africa

WEBEast and Southern Africa is the region most affected by HIV in the world and is also home to the largest number of people living with HIV (19.6 million in 2017.) This …

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Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental

WEBThomas Insel was the NIMH director from 2002 to 2015, and in his recently published book, Healing (2022), he notes, “The idea of mental illness as a ‘chemical …

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National Single Payer, a Health Care Justice Organization in the …

WEBAs a national, grassroots, social justice organization that organizes locally in the struggle for national single payer health care in the U.S., united by the common …

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A Year After Dobbs, Black Women Still Struggle for Access to

WEBIt’s been a year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the predictions by several experts that the …

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Americans are Suffering: Looking Beyond Covid-19

WEBIn 2017, 10.6 million American adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.2 million made a plan, and 1.4 million attempted suicide.”. Americans are suffering and …

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The Private Health Insurance Industry: Should It Be Eliminated

WEBMany Americans assume that the private health insurance industry is an unmovable fixture in the U. S. health care system, but there is a growing need to re …

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Bureaucracies in the Most Expensive Healthcare System in the World

WEBIf one simply looks at the $15 copay, given the nurse sees three patients at a time, one can look at it, again, in several ways: 1. Six patients per hour, thus the nurse’s …

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The Situation in Haiti, 1995: an Interview with Paul Farmer, MD

WEBIn the spring of 1995, Paul Farmer, who died last week, was in San Francisco to take part in a weekend conference on resurgent TB. This interview —all too …

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The Globalization of Bad Food and Poor Health

WEBThe Globalization of Bad Food and Poor Health. The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. …

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The Practical Libertarian’s Case for Single Payer Healthcare

WEBThis year, there have been serious discussions about healthcare policy in America. The Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obamacare generated much backlash.

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Health Care in Crisis: Warning! US Capitalism is Lethal

WEBThe average per- capita health spending of eight European countries plus Australia and Japan, all of them capitalist and wealthy, was $6,003 in 2021; they showed …

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Big Privatized Healthcare Fraud in Maine

WEBThe U.S. Justice Department accused Martin’s Point Health Center in Portland, Maine, of Medicare fraud. According to a settlement announced on July 31, the …

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End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations is Shortsighted and …

WEBLast week, on April 10, 2023, the Administration changed course, as President Biden signed a GOP-led resolution to end the COVID-19 national emergency. The related, but distinct, …

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