Health Care

Proponents claimed it would lower costs and improve health care for seniors. It has achieved neither of those goals; instead, it has become a wildly profitable scheme for private insurance giants. By Emma Curchin, Brandon Novick and Peter Hart | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The quasi-privatized system called “Medicare Advantage,” otherwise known as Part […]

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Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the beginning of Israel’s latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last year, Israel has targeted the healthcare sector, not only as part of its military strategy but also as a means of genocide. The deliberate destruction of hospitals means there is no […]

Health Care

For-Profit US Healthcare System—Once Again—Ranks Dead Last Among Its Peers

Common Dreams

Jake Johnson ( Commondreams ) – A report out Thursday shows that the United States’ for-profit healthcare system still ranks dead last among peer nations on key metrics, including access to care and health outcomes such as life expectancy at birth. The new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund is the latest indictment of a corporate-dominated […]

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25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are “Life-Changing;” Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli bombardments killed 38 people in Gaza. Based on past experience, we can expect a majority of those killed to have been women and children — at least 21 and maybe more. Photographs and video coming out of Gaza show dead children being carried in burial shrouds. For […]

Epidemics

Israel’s War on Gaza created Ideal Environment for Polio Virus, Limiting Clean Water and Sanitation

The Conversation

Gaza Israel Polio

Health Care

Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day

The Conversation

By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Liz Breen University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – A large polio vaccination campaign started in war-torn Gaza on Sunday, September 1. The initiative, which is being led by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to reach over 640,000 children under the age of ten. To […]

Health Care

200 UN Teams Begin Drive to immunize 600K Palestinian Children in Gaza, Warn that Ceasefire is Essential

Juan Cole

UN News reports that the initial stage of a UN-led polio immunization initiative commenced Sunday in the central regions of Gaza. The undertaking aims to vaccinate 600,000 youngsters in the upcoming days. To curb the polio outbreak in Gaza and avert an international spread of the virus, health workers need to immunize at least 90 […]

Epidemics

Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a 2011 exposé , Mike Stobbe of NBC news revealed a long history of federal physicians from the US deliberately infecting challenged persons or prisoners with diseases so as to experiment on them. For instance, Stobbe wrote, “In the 1946-48 study, American scientists infected prisoners and patients in a […]