Critics were not convinced. “This rule will erode the availability of affordable comprehensive coverage in most states’ individual and small-group markets,” said Keysha Brooks-Coley, a vice president of the American Cancer Society. […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said Tuesday that “everybody” in the Senate wants to maintain protections for people with preexisting conditions, even as the Trump administration seeks to have such protections […]
Conflict between labor and management is nothing new. The period of post-WWII prosperity in which US union density reached its peak was decidedly not an era of labor peace. […]
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) strongly pushed back against Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz’s argument—heard for years from centrist Democrats and Republicans, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary—that a Medicare for All […]
Health care had been front-and-center in the governor’s race — at least between the top two Democrats, Newsom and Villaraigosa. Newsom has supported single-payer health care for all residents, while Villaraigosa has raised questions about […]
A proposal to create government price controls in California for surgeries, hospital stays, doctor visits and other health care services died Friday when it failed to clear a key committee, but the author says he plans to bring it back next year. […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently discussed the idea of unionization among Tesla’s factory workers. In a series of tweets this past weekend, Musk explained that Tesla workers are free to form a union anytime. Musk added that he has no power to stop […]
As momentum in the fight for Medicare for All continues to grow nationwide thanks to persistent grassroots organizing, a group of California doctors placed an unprecedented eight-page ad in a major Sacramento newspaper on Thursday […]
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is refusing to advance this year a controversial single-payer health care bill that would dramatically reshape the state’s health care financing and delivery system. Instead, he’s orchestrating an […]
Tens of thousands of registered nurses and nurse practitioners at facilities owned by Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative labor deal with the healthcare giant March 16, according to a union news release. […]
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