by Michael McKinley | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Health, I Speak, Inequality
I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need Medicare For All, when I know that we do. These candidates parrot lines they’re fed by big pharma, big insurers and big...
by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Earlier this month, still another one-day-wonder of a Twitter storm surfaced and quickly sank in Donald Trump’s America. On January 9, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society that show —...
by Mike Tipping | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and drug company giant Eli Lilly. The Sacklers have admitted to misleadingly...
by Joy Blackwood | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
“How our country talks about the war on drugs is backwards,” said Kassandra Frederique, in her opening remarks to the first-ever convening of the People’s Action Overdose Crisis Cohort in Washington, D.C.“Criminalization of drug use and drug prohibition was no...
by Andrea Flynn | Dec 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
Every weekday for six weeks this fall, I had radiation for early-stage breast cancer. October 9th was my last treatment. This journey has been a lesson in privilege, structural inequality and our broken social and economic systems. In May, I saw my obstetrician in New...
