No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
How States Can Better Care for Direct Care Workers
A new report offers recommendations for state policymakers looking to strengthen the backbone of the care economy — the direct care workers themselves.
What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago
Imagine if the next generation of Americans experienced healthcare as a human right, and quality of care wasn’t determined by wealth or income.
Medicare For All Would Save Money — And Lives
The last thing on your mind during a ride to the ER should be: Is this going to bankrupt me?
America Needs a Long-Term Care Program for Seniors
By 2035, seniors will outnumber children. A new plan in Washington state shows how we can care for them — and for their caretakers.
Nine Things to Buy with $5 Billion Instead of a Border Wall
Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it’s an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs.
The Carcinogens That Come in Pay Envelopes
Cancer-treatment executives are reaping fortunes off deeply misleading marketing strategies.
Any Senior Who Needs Home Care Should Get It
Caring for loved ones with dementia is hard enough. Families shouldn’t have to bear a financial crisis on top of that.
Health Over Wealth for the World’s Richest — But What About the Rest of Us?
Big pharma brought in millions of dollars in profits through the overprescription of opioids. Is accountability for the 63,000 fatal overdoses they caused around the corner?
Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017
Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.
Trump’s Policies Will Devastate the People He Used as Props for His Speech
Health care costs are set to jump, and big employers are shedding jobs despite taking tax breaks.
One Year of Trump: Boomtimes for Billionaires
The Trump tenure has been boom times for those at the top. For the rest of the country, economic opportunity looks bleak.
Do the Poor Deserve Health Care? These Politicians Say No.
Billionaire-backed politicians are turning Kentucky’s health care miracle into a tragedy.
Trump Just Made it Easier to Deny Medicaid to Poor Americans
Corporations get a tax cut and lay off workers, while individual Medicaid recipients will have to provide proof of work status to hold onto their health insurance. That hardly seems fair.
The GOP Is Using ‘Tax Reform’ to Gut American Health Care
Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent alone could fund coverage for 12 million Americans.