Private companies with no discernible track records, or records worse than the VA’s, are pushing for federal funds.
Health & Social Policy
Posted inWorking in America
Pennsylvania Nurses Win Paid Family Leave for Entire County
Allegheny County is the first in the nation to pass the benefit, which grants 12 weeks of paid parental leave to residents at covered worksites.
Posted inPolitics
The Midterm Election Was About Health Care
In the face of Trump’s destruction of public health and modern science, voters are putting candidates who support Medicare for All, doctors, and nurses into positions of power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Mysterious Nursing Home Money Bomb
The GOP’s three most vociferous hunters of Minnesota Somali fraud received nearly half a million dollars from some of health care’s most notorious figures.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
New Medicaid Requirements Galvanizing Dems in Battleground States
Advocates are hosting a series of conferences about deadly GOP health care spending cuts; Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee found five contracting goliaths are set to reap outsized benefits.
Posted inPolitics
Troy Jackson Is on a Medicare for All Mission
Maine health care is deteriorating in real time, and the Senate candidate wants to find a way out of this crisis.
Posted inPolitics
South Carolina Senate Hopeful Runs on Health Care Populism
An unusually detailed health care policy platform from Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, attacks Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and big hospital systems for putting profits over care.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Road to Universal Medicare
The apparent split between advocates of Medicare for All and a more incremental approach is misleading and easily remedied.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care: Jayapal
Even more people want Medicare for All than did last December, a new poll shows.