Health Care

The process of applying for disability benefits is intentionally difficult, because the priority is to keep us working, not healthy. …

Receiving mental health services at Kaiser can be a significant struggle. Due to chronic short …

Steward Health Care extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from its hospitals, leaving patients and employees feeling the consequences. …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Women and doctors held demonstrations in New Delhi, after the rape and murder of a junior doctor. …

Donations from billionaires are not a substitute for having a system that works for all of us. …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother, is the latest victim of Texas’s near-total abortion ban. After …

Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore have won union recognition. …

Since April, at least 2 million children have lost Medicaid health insurance throughout 21 U.S. states. The reports …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Kaiser Permanente, the healthcare giant, has agreed to a $49-million-dollar settlement as a result of …

The Netflix series Painkiller shows Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, and the difficulty in holding corporations accountable under capitalism. …

The U.S. is experiencing a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, but the government has decided it’s not a problem anymore, and is not taking any action to mitigate it. …

Gilead Sciences delayed a new, more-effective AIDS treatment drug so they could continue profiting from the still-patented old drugs. …

Hospitals have faced a surge in people needing treatment during the recent heat waves. …

Highland Hospital needs to get more staff and stop overworking its workers. …

The Highland and Kaiser hospitals treat their workers like robots! …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of …

The U.S. is rolling back Medicaid benefits, but we still need healthcare! …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a paper that sounded the alarm about …

Cigna health insurance has an efficient system to process claims quickly and easily: they just …

With the end of the government-declared pandemic health emergency also comes the end of Medicaid coverage. …

With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is now banned or severely restricted in over 18 …

More details about the nursing degree scandal have emerged. …

On March 10, after 3 years the Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center (CRC) run by Johns …

The nursing shortage created an environment that allowed scammers to profit from issuing fake nursing degrees. …

Nurses occupied NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to force the hospital to honor their contract. …

Nurses in the UK went on strike on January 18 and 19, and more strikes are expected in the coming months. …

January 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 landmark US Supreme Court Roe v. …

Despite the fact that Covid remains the third leading cause of death, killing about 400 …

A parody Twitter account of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly drew attention to the exorbitant price of insulin. …

Private insurers that offer a “Medicare Advantage” plan have milked Medicare’s public coffers fraudulently for …

High workload on nurses has caused burnout, leading to 90% of nurses considering leaving their jobs. …

On Friday, September 23, a judge lifted a nearly 50 year old injunction that blocked …

15,000 nurses in Minnesota went on a 3-day strike. …

On Tuesday, September 13, Senator Lindsey Graham proposed a national bill that would ban abortions …

Note: This article comes from the most recent edition of Speak Out Now’s Healthcare Newsletter.  Kaiser …

Predatory nursing homes sued family and friends of deceased patients to collect bill payments. …

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser mental health clinicians have been on strike since Monday, advocating …

The Democrats and their supporters are trying to paint the passage of the Inflation Reduction …