by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 7, 2017 | Health
As medicine for our health care system, it's worse than a placebo. It will do active harm to millions of people, particularly low-income people and seniors. It cuts taxes for the wealthy and corporations and dangles paltry tax credits to working people. It leaves...
by Julie Chinitz | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog, Health
Bruised in heated town halls in Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere, the right wing in Congress now realizes it could pay a steep political price for throwing tens of millions of people off their health care, destabilizing our health care system, and putting...
by Gloria Totten | Feb 9, 2017 | Blog, Gender Justice, Health
Many of us have been fixed to our screens, watching in horror as President Trump and his colossally unqualified administration roll back progress at an unprecedented pace. But, let’s remember this political moment came, in part, because of relentless attacks by...
by Brenda Patoine | Feb 9, 2017 | Health
If you had told me two weeks ago that I would be telling my “health care story” before a standing-room-only auditorium of 1,000-plus people and then again to the policy wonk at my U.S. congressman’s office, I’d have told you that you were nuts. As in, bonkers. Public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 18, 2017 | Health
A school bus driver living in Slatington, Pa., writes that three years ago she was beginning to feel ill, but thought nothing of it until one morning, while checking the bus before starting her route, her fingers went numb. She had just signed up for a health...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 1, 2016 | Health
To mark World AIDS Day and to call attention to a looming threat to HIV treatment and prevention programs, 11 AIDS activists were arrested Thursday afternoon while staging a sit-in at the office of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. They were protesting plans by Ryan and...
