Healthcare Reform

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.

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 worsen income inequality, but companies and health insurance behemoths love them because unused benefits means more money for them.

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.

What if the key to finally achieving your goals was as simple as learning more about your own body and its workings?

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.

Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy.

A new federal bill would advance public and environmental health by banning toxic chemicals from food packaging.

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.

As with any other institution driven by capitalism, in the health care industry, inequality is inherent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Reich: By doing what's right for our own people we can better defend democracy and human rights abroad

Robert Reich: American spending on healthcare per person is more than twice the average in the world’s other thirty-five advanced nations.

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.

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.