Healthcare Reform

Our society tends to treat the mentally ill like dirt, like losers, like a nuisance, even as the government gushes money for more police, more weapons, and more wars, whether internally or externally.

These countries—unlike Cuba—have not been able to harness the commitment and ingenuity of wonderful people. These country’s children die with no doctor there to mourn them decades later.

The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program found an app that people use to obtain telehealth services. An innovative technique to combat health disparities.

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.

One of the easiest scams in the history of scams is done with insurance.

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.

$200 million for healthcare for part-time community college faculty could be a game changer

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.