“I’ve long thought that the way to go for the US,” writes Bill Boyarsky in TruthDig, “was a system in which everyone would have a Medicare card, show it at a hospital, urgent care facility, pharmacy or doctor’s office and get care without deductibles […]
Union membership in the US has fallen dramatically over the last generation. In 1980, one in five workers were in a union, but today it’s just one in 10. Despite that, data shows being in a union is still very effective in protecting the rights […]
The country’s largest nurses’ union will endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for president this week, a significant boost to his campaign from a major ally in the fight for his signature health care proposal. The union, National Nurses United […]
“Last week I worried that Elizabeth Warren had painted herself into a corner by endorsing the Sanders ‘Medicare for All’ plan,” writes Paul Krugman in The San Francisco Chronicle. “It was becoming obvious that she couldn’t stay vague […]
A tentative settlement was announced on Wednesday in a case against Sutter Health, the sprawling hospital system in Northern California accused of anti-competitive behavior, just as the trial was to begin. The class-action lawsuit, which was brought by the California attorney general, along with employers and unions […]
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 […]
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