The Grim Consequences of Closing Urban Hospitals
By Emily Badger for the Atlantic – In 1995, Philadelphia had 19 hospitals with obstetric units, places where local women – about half of them on Medicaid – could go for prenatal care and, ultimately,...
View ArticleThe Biggest Myth in Obama-GOP Showdown is the “Fiscal Cliff” Itself
By Democracy Now – As negotiations continue between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner, leading economist Dean Baker joins to discuss the myths about the so-called fiscal cliff. With little...
View ArticleFor Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health
By Sabrina Tavernise for the New York Times – Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car...
View ArticleU.S. Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries
U.S. citizens suffer from poorer health than nearly all other industrialized countries, according to the first comprehensive government analysis. By Carey L. Biron for Alternet – U.S. citizens suffer...
View ArticleAction Alert: Should School Workers Earn $2 An Hour?
The cooks, custodians, and maintenance workers at the Old Rochester School system in Massachusetts are facing an impossible healthcare situation. You can help by signing their change.org petition...
View ArticleStrike Debt Abolishes $1.1 Million of Medical Debt
By Allison Kilkenny for the Nation – Strike Debt, a group that emerged from the Occupy Wall Street movement, has planned a week of actions in multiple cities across the country to mark the abolition of...
View ArticleHealing Wounds After Boston Bombings
By Benjamin Day, Director of Organizing, Healthcare-NOW! – The Boston area, where I live and grew up, has been feeling smaller and smaller since the Marathon bombings and unprecedented manhunt for...
View ArticleImmigrants Contribute More To Medicare Than They Take Out
By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News – As Congress mulls changing America’s border and naturalization rules, a study finds that immigrant workers are helping buttress Medicare’s finances, because they...
View ArticleThe U.S. Lags in Life Expectancy Gains
From Bloomberg Businessweek – Life expectancy in the U.S. has been growing more slowly than in other developed countries and is now more than a year below the developed-country average, according to a...
View ArticleInequality Is (Literally) Killing America
By Zoë Carpenter for the Nation – Only a few miles separate the Baltimore neighborhoods of Roland Park and Upton Druid Heights. But residents of the two areas can measure the distance between them in...
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