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Barbershop for Black Men’s Health Needs
The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program found an app that people use to obtain telehealth services. An innovative technique to combat health disparities.
Why Are Our Bodies, Societies and Planet All Inflamed?
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
Medicare Advantage Scammers
One of the easiest scams in the history of scams is done with insurance.
Congress: Lower Drug Prices Now or Lose Your Job
As we get closer to the midterm elections, voters across the country will remember the records of every other elected official who answered to Big Pharma and not the people.
Affordable Healthcare for Part-Time Community College Faculty
$200 million for healthcare for part-time community college faculty could be a game changer
Is There a Conservative Case for Medicare for All?
The case for Medicare for All is a strong one, but it is complicated. It would take true leadership to convince voters it is a good idea.
Lifesaving Medicare for All - Fight for Life and Humanity
Medicare For All is a call to sanity and to morality. It is a call to reaffirm life amid loss and sorrow. In challenging times, it calls us to be our best selves.
High-Deductible Health Plans’ Effect on Inequality Worse
High-Deductible Health Plans worsen income inequality, but companies and health insurance behemoths love them because unused benefits means more money for them.
California’s Nursing Home Crisis Worsens
Though optimistic, both Oronia and Polk say that they would not entrust a family member or loved one to the facility where they work given what they’ve seen.
NJDiet Reviews: What Is the NJ Diet & Does It Work?
What if the key to finally achieving your goals was as simple as learning more about your own body and its workings?
Smoking Kills the Wealthy Despite Wealth Privilege
For smokers, however, the picture was much more grim. Above the age of 65, mortality rate among current smokers was three times higher than never-smokers.
U.S. Culture of Colonial Extraction Sickens People, Destroys the Planet
Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy.
Will Congress Ban Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging That Weaken Our Immune System Response?
A new federal bill would advance public and environmental health by banning toxic chemicals from food packaging.
Neuroscience Tips for Navigating Uncertain Times: Eat a Cookie?
Given all the uncertainty and fear in our 2022 world — about Covid, the economy, the environment — it’s important to understand what’s going on in our brains and bodies.
Medicare for All - It's Not a Left Thing - It's Survival!
As with any other institution driven by capitalism, in the health care industry, inequality is inherent.
Life Goes On, Right?
Robert Koehler: Amidst the chaos, noise and pain, I remember also feeling a sense of relief, crazy as that may sound — relief that I was alone, that I didn’t wake anyone up.
The Model California Represents to the Nation
Vincent De Stefano: When it comes to Big Business, anyone who believes that the Democratic Party is anything more than the other side of the Republican coin needs to have their head examined.
Lessons Learned as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver
Walter G. Moss: I had read enough about “caregiver burnout” to know that caregivers like me needed some relief, and yet I also knew that Nance would prefer that I almost never leave her side.
9 Years an Alzheimer’s Caregiver: What Did I Learn?
Walter G. Moss: In my caregiver years I learned much, but primarily three things, two regarding positive approaches—the vital importance of love and embracing the heroic—and one about a negative path that should be shunned like the plague—self-pity.
Contain Putin, Yes, But Do Not Lose Sight of Priorities at Home
Robert Reich: By doing what's right for our own people we can better defend democracy and human rights abroad
Could There Be a More Expensive, Less Effective Healthcare System Than Ours?
Robert Reich: American spending on healthcare per person is more than twice the average in the world’s other thirty-five advanced nations.
Could California Actually Pass Single-Payer Health Care?
Sonali Kolhatkar: If passed, a new bill would establish a streamlined, publicly funded single-payer health care system in California, paid for by progressive taxes—in the face of dogged opposition from corporate profiteers.
Health Care Coverage, Love and Insurance Companies in the Time of COVID
Brian Biery: The benefits of AB1400 are lengthy and include the streamlining of administration: all health care providers would bill just one entity in a single-payer system.