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Want to Fix Public Health

WebStop Thinking Like a Doctor. Public health requires seeing the world from a collective perspective, but US agencies are still dominated by doctors trained to work on an …

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The Pandemic Shows Why We Need Universal Health Care

WebPre-pandemic, a study found that 22 percent of Americans delay health care needs because of costs; they might avoid testing and vaccines for the same reason. Cost and …

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America’s Healthcare System Is a Failure The Nation

WebActivism; OppArt; October 9, 2023; America’s Healthcare System Is a Failure America’s Healthcare System Is a Failure Despite spending more per capita on health care than …

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The Fight for the Soul of American Medicine The Nation

WebThe undermining of public health as a common good since 2020 is just more of the same, but in hyperdrive, with the predatory instinct of a financialized modern American …

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Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data

WebFueled by more than $600 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—a virtually unheard-of sum for an academic research institute—the IHME has outgrown and …

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Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure The Nation

WebThis article appears in the December 13/20, 2021 issue.. The American health care system is a notorious disaster. On the one hand, even “good” private employer-based insurance …

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We’re Letting a Public Health Disaster Unfold In Slow Motion

WebAd Policy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen rubs her head while taking notes during her end-of-day check-in inside her office at the Centers …

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What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave

WebHCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital system, reaped $5.64 billion in 2022 profits and paid CEO Sam Hazen $14.6 million— a 46 percent boost from 2018. Gregory …

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California Gets One Step Closer to Universal Healthcare

WebYet now, in 2024, after a series of steps over the last few years in which MediCal was expanded to more and more groups who had been excluded from the original ACA …

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Health Workers Have Stepped Up for Gaza. Now We Need a …

WebKarim Sariahmed. Healthcare workers stage a die-in to protest the bombing of hospitals in Gaza at San Francisco City Hall on January 8, 2024. (Haven Daley / AP) As an Algerian …

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Gregg Gonsalves The Nation

WebGregg Gonsalves. @gregggonsalves. Nation public health correspondent Gregg Gonsalves is the codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate …

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The Problem With Mental Health Awareness The Nation

WebA recreation of the Peanuts psychiatric clinic is seen on Wadas Avenue in Upper Darby, Pa. The need for mental health has increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Pete Bannan …

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The Reactionary Justices Won’t Stop Until Abortions Are Illegal

WebOral arguments in Idaho case make clear that further, even more radical attacks on reproductive freedom are coming. United States Supreme Court justices pose for their …

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The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting …

WebIn October 2022, HHSC Deputy Executive Commissioner Wayne Salter told a Texas House panel on health care reform that 400 staff vacancies at his agency had led to a backlog …

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More States Are Using Doulas to Help Solve the Maternal Health …

WebIn 1921, there were around 100,000 practicing midwives in the United States. The majority were Black midwives from the South who, in the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, were …

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Texas Is “Hell-Bent” on Preventing Pregnant Patients From Getting …

WebHours after a Texas judge ruled in favor of expanding abortion access to patients facing life-threatening complications, the state appealed the decision, blocking it from taking effect.

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Health Care in the US Should Be Affordable and Accessible

WebGood health care must not only be affordable, but also provide easy access to medical services—to better nutrition, a healthier environment, and greater longevity. In this …

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Remembering Andrea Miller, a Reproductive Justice Movement …

WebThe Nation Magazine. When I learned that the reproductive health activist Andrea Miller had died suddenly in late October, my first thought was that we had lost Miller right when we …

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Homeschooled Students’ Invisible Mental Health Crisis

WebIn a separate, 2019 study on LGBTQ+ homeschooled youth and their mental health, researchers found that, among the 651 participants, high rates of mental illness and …

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The Unnatural Disaster Threatening Puerto Rico's Children

WebThe island’s health system is on its knees. Doctors are fleeing in droves. And the crisis is hurting children most of all. The island’s health system is on its knees. Doctors are …

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Inside Connecticut’s Fight to Expand Medicaid Coverage for …

WebIn January 2023, Connecticut expanded Medicaid coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 12. It was the first time undocumented immigrants of any age could qualify for …

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Hannity's Soul-Mate of Hate The Nation

WebSociety; Feature; June 3, 2005; Hannity’s Soul-Mate of Hate Hannity’s Soul-Mate of Hate A look at the past friendship between Fox’s racism cop and a neo-Nazi.

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This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay The Nation

WebYet the ultra-wealthy and a handful of corporations continue to block the pathway to an urgently needed energy transition. According to a report from Oxfam International, the …

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Big Ag’s Latest Blow to Workers' Rights The Nation

WebUsing the new law, once a majority of workers have signed up, a union gives the signed cards to the ALRB. After the board verifies that the union has majority support, it certifies …

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Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

WebOnly a few hours later, around 1 pm, Shafik authorized the NYPD to sweep the encampment and arrest the protesters to uphold the “safety of the community,” according to an e-mail …

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