Health Care

Politicians are rushing to reopen the economy and they don’t care how many coffins they fill. …

Report From Someone Trying to Roll Out Accurate Testing and Reporting at a Huge Public University …

How is it that being poorer means I pay more for health coverage instead of less? …

On April 13th, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. …

Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers. …

Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility: we were already navigating a health care crisis …

Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior. …

Poetry from an Oakland Kaiser Worker …

From a Mental Health Hotline Worker: No one is in this alone. …

Frontline Health Care Worker in North Jersey: Our frontline workers are in a chokehold. …

Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely. …

Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …

You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …

“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …

Healthcare workers protested the lack of protective equipment (PPE) outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Oakland, …

For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …

Now is the time to imagine a better world. …

For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period. …

Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic …

The headlines have been full of discussion about the Affordable Care act known as “Obamacare”. …

Revolutionary University October 2016 Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in …

As budget cuts dry up state funding for public hospitals, emergency rooms and entire hospitals …

Workplaces everywhere have been starting what are called Wellness Programs. Under these programs, companies are …

We’re supposed to believe that our health is our own choice, that anytime we’re overweight …

The Obama administration presented the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a victory for  health care …

We are beginning to see the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – what …