health care
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Drug companies working hard to protect profits
President Obama and other politicians are hosting town hall meetings across the country as part of the process of passing…
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Backroom deal shapes health care reform
While town hall meetings are ostensibly turning health care reform into a public debate, the boundaries of the health care…
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What could ‘fix’ the U.S. health care system?
The writer is a Registered Nurse working in the Los Angeles area. The following is based on a presentation at…
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Health care is a human right
Health care is a fundamental human right. Yet 47 million people in the United States have no health care coverage…
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Capitalist health care bankrupts workers
A Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University study, published in the American Journal of Medicine, has found…
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Threat of HIV/AIDS cuts spark protest in Southern California
Many hundreds of people gathered at Hollywood’s Forever Cemetery June 5 to protest over $80 million worth of proposed funding…
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Millions of care giving workers in dire financial straits
A new survey by Evercare and the National Alliance for Caregiving indicates that approximately 17 percent of 44 million U.S.…
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VA health care facing mounting failures
The author is a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and a member of March Forward! , an organization…
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H1N1 pandemic highlights inequities of capitalist society
This is an edited version of a talk given at a PSL San Francisco Bay Area meeting on May 8.…
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Heart failure among Black adults 20 times more prevalent
According to a New England Journal of Medicine study, heart failure occurs 20 times more often among African Americans under…
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