by LeeAnn Hall | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Ask about health care at a summer cookout, and you’ll likely get an earful about how drug corporations are gouging us, leaving many families to choose between buying medications or putting food on the table. Why? Because corporations put profits before patients. Look...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
The idea of Medicare for All, or single-payer health care, has grown in popularity so quickly that it was recently an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy: More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000. But at...
by Mark Trahant | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
I am not sure of the exact year. It probably happened around 1996. That’s when the Indian Health Service became the single largest employer in Indian Country. This makes sense when you think about it: Indian health was once a small (unappreciated) division of the...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
Senate leader Mitch McConnell has warned Republicans that if he can’t find 50 Republican votes to repeal and replace Obamacare soon, he’ll open negotiations with Democrats to “fix” the thing. He intended this as a threat - a club to help round up the necessary support...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog
“None of us would say that we are on a course to success here in Afghanistan,” said Senator John McCain, speaking for a five-member bipartisan Senate delegation at a Kabul press briefing on July 4. The senators didn’t have to skip the July 4 parades to discover that....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 8, 2017 | Blog
Sears is fading. Fast. The 124-year-old retailer — the place where all America once shopped — is tumbling into a shopping horror. At some Sears stores, recent news accounts report, ceilings are collapsing, rats are racing, and toilets aren’t working “for weeks on...
