Healthcare Reform
The Broken Private Health Insurance System
This broken system consumes hundreds of billions of dollars annually and should be central in every election debate.
Mushroom Helps Men to Stay Fit Longer
Readers may find this ridiculous as to why so much emphasis is being given to mushrooms, but they are in fact extremely good for your health.
Why Dobbs Is Such a Potential Disaster for the Military
Post-Dobbs abortion access for military dependents is in question
Constitutional Amendments Needed to Protect Abortion From Right-Wing Judges
Although the California Supreme Court has declared that the state constitution’s right to privacy protects abortion, that safeguard remains ephemeral.
Our Stress — Inside Us or Outside Us?
Do we need better access to mental health, or a healthier society?
Interpreter Bill Would Help Save Lives Lost in Translation
Gary Cohn: Day after day, non-English speaking patients are seeing doctors and nurses throughout California without the aid of medical interpreters, sometimes with tragic results
Dobbs Almost Mandates National Paid Leave
In the wake of the Dobbs ruling, many states now ban abortion - but don't offer any type of paid leave, universal healthcare, or childcare.
Medicare for All
Dozens of financial profiteering scandals have wracked private insurers. Everyone should categorically reject fear tactics about ‘Medicare for All’.
Wall Street Slowly Taking Over Medicare
A 3rd party, private, for-profit middleman, is moving traditional Medicare enrollees into their program without seniors’ knowledge and without Congressional oversight.
Is There a Real Doctor in the House?
The over valuing of MDs and the concomitant undervaluing of PhDs result from the successful efforts of the single most effective professional guild in American history.
Health Insurance Companies Love ACA
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to contain costs and make insurance for health / mental health care affordable.
Some Deaths Matter More than Others - Covid vs 9/11
Why do some deaths matter so much more than others? More than one million people have died from Covid-19 in this country.
Petition Congress to Protect Access to Abortion
Support legislation to free women from birthing bondage by nullifying state anti-abortion laws
988 Mental Health Hotline
California has launched the 988 mental health crisis hotline joining the effort to provide a simple, easy to remember, 3-digit number
As New Covid Boosters Advance, Better Outreach Is Needed to Save Lives
Many Americans have nonetheless accepted a faulty narrative that assumes that high-risk Americans are already safely vaccinated and boosted.
Putting Publicly Funded, Non-Profit, National Health Care on the Ballot
Is it possible that the people of these rural communities, under the stress of a broken health care system, can spark a movement to fix health care for the nation?
What's Wrong with Kaiser’s Approach to Mental Health Therapy
Mental health clinicians employed at Kaiser are crucial to our well-being. The quality and quantity of mental health therapy should prioritize the patient's needs.
Is Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health Accountable to Anyone?
the department treats community institutions as supplicants and uses the club of its funding to keep them in line.
Kaiser's Inadequate Mental Health Care
It would cost Kaiser far more to adequately build out its mental health practice than to continue absorbing fines imposed by the state for its lagging services.
Why Kaiser Therapists Are Striking
Mental health workers have gone on strike due to the level of service provided to patients. The planned strike is described as a bargaining tactic of the union.
Would America's For-Profit Healthcare System Would Just as Soon Kill You as Look at You?
To this system, it doesn't matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That's why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.
Mental Health Patients Languish Under Kaiser Permanente's Stranglehold
It wasn’t the pay that drove Ken Harlander to private practice. He says he left because Kaiser overbooked him and prevented him from doing his job effectively.
Asbestos Problems
The disastrous effects of asbestos-caused diseases among American people. The steps were taken by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) to save people.
Privatizing Medicare
Elderly people are often overwhelmed by the onslaught of very misleading advertisements regarding Medicare.