Dissentmagazine.org

Abortion Is Healthcare: Lessons From a Public Hospital

WebAmy Zanoni ▪ Winter 2023 Pro- and anti-abortion protesters gather outside an abortion clinic in Chicago on April 27, 1992. (Stacia Timonere/Getty Images) Since the …

Actived: 4 days ago

URL: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/abortion-is-healthcare-lessons-from-a-public-hospital/

Rage Against American Healthcare

WebThe disgrace of American healthcare, he argues, is a betrayal of American values. “Our malady is physical illness and the political evil that surrounds it,” he writes. “We are ill in …

Category:  Health Go Health

America’s Health Care System is Even More Broken than …

WebChristy Ford Chapin June 14, 2017. AMA leaders invented the insurance company model as an alternative to government intervention. Above, AMA officers lobbying against a 1939 …

Category:  Health Go Health

Can We Have Universal Health Care

WebRoger Bybee Winter 2024. Barack Obama aspires to be a “transformative” president, with his hopes particularly fixed on America’s finally achieving a universal health care …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

WebNick Serpe March 18, 2021. Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh (Wikimedia Commons) Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this …

Category:  Health Go Health

Bring Back Health Planning

WebBring Back Health Planning. We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned …

Category:  Health Go Health

Who Closes Hospitals

WebIn November, M Health Fairview, one of the largest healthcare providers in the Minneapolis–St. Paul region, proposed closing the oldest hospital in Minnesota, the …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Perils of Private Welfare: Job-Based Benefits and …

WebAmerican inequality is driven not just by the uneven distribution of wages, but also by the uneven distribution of job-based benefits. More than any other country, the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Crisis and Opportunity

WebCrisis and Opportunity. The left will not live forever on the sidelines of political power. When we have an opportunity to remake our healthcare system, we must be sure to seize it. …

Category:  Health Go Health

Undocumented, Uninsured, Unafraid

WebUndocumented, Uninsured, Unafraid. In the fight for healthcare for all, single-payer and immigrant rights activists face serious obstacles, but also the opportunity to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Health Care in Taiwan: Why Can’t the United States Learn

WebTaiwan is a smaller (twenty-one million people), more compact country than the United States, but the NHI provides many pointers for Americans attempting to secure full …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Class Politics of Teeth

WebNationally, children’s utilization of dental services under Medicaid has improved since Satcher’s Oral Health in America report in 2000 and since the death of Deamonte Driver …

Category:  Health Go Health

Therapy With a Human Face

WebHannah Zeavin ▪ Winter 2022 Sigmund, Anna, and Eve Freud (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) . In the universe of Eliza, a video game and …

Category:  Health Go Health

As Florida Reopens, the Health Crisis in Immokalee Deepens

WebIn April, we spoke with Oscar Otzoy of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) about their fight for access to testing and healthcare. Shortly after we spoke, the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights

WebA caucus of black feminists at a 1994 pro-choice conference coined the term “reproductive justice,” a framework that includes not only a woman’s right not to have a child, but also …

Category:  Health Go Health

The War on Health in Gaza

WebEach process intensifies the lethal consequences of the other. Adam Gaffney April 12, 2024. A Palestinian medical worker inspects the damage at Nasser Hospital in …

Category:  Medical Go Health

The Pandemic Inside the Only Women's Maximum-Security Prison …

WebBedford Hills is the only maximum-security prison—and the only one with a live-in nursery program with an onsite doctor—for the approximately 2,350 women …

Category:  Health Go Health

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global …

WebDemocratiya 8 | Spring 2007 | 70 | constitutional forms of government, and the implications of inter-city transactions for the construction of forms of territoriality.

Category:  Health Go Health

Patents Against People: How Drug Companies Price Patients out of

WebMichelle Chen ▪ Fall 2013 Protest against the unaffordability of Novartis drugs (Carlos Capote, 2007, Flick creative commons) . As our television screens toggle …

Category:  Health Go Health

The New Administration Can Stop Wage Theft-and Stimulate the …

WebKim Bobo ▪ November 25, 2008 . President-elect Barack Obama and his team are going to have their hands full when they take the reins of government in January. Wage …

Category:  Health Go Health

Archive: The Social Democratic Prospect

WebDemocratiya 3 | Winter 2005 | 64 | to their desirable potentials as human beings. It is possible for human beings to be politically equal as voters, but yet so unequal in …

Category:  Health Go Health

Alinsky for the Left: The Politics of Community Organizing

Web…community organizing provides a way to merge various strategies for neighborhood empowerment. Organizing begins with the premise that (1) the problems facing inner-city …

Category:  Health Go Health