Health Care

US Should Ensure Effective Humanitarian Exemptions

In the Billionaires’ America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

( Otherwords.org) – Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live. What do the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing costs to retail sales. The most depressing […]

Health Care

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

Tomdispatch

Persistent growth of income inequality to Gilded Age levels has had a decided effect on the health of many Americans

Bernie Sanders

How Bernie Sanders trounced Fox on Medicare for All, and why a Carbon Tax could help Pay for It

Juan Cole

I say, apply the proceeds of a carbon tax to funding medicare for all

Health Care

The Measure of our Happiness: Our Miserable Plutocracy

H. Patricia Hynes

Most policies adopted by our government are those that favor the economic elite and business interests.

Health Care

Trump is Coming for your Health Care, Will Re-institute Exclusion for Pre-Existing Conditions

AFP

“Democrats will continue to fight relentlessly to protect people with pre-existing conditions and to deliver lower health costs” – Pelosi

Donald Trump

Top 4 things more disgraceful than Michelle Wolf’s Jokes or leak of Mueller Questions

Juan Cole

Right-wing outrage in the name of respectability politics rings especially hollow in the age of Trump

Addiction

Marijuana’s Key Ingredient Not Dangerous or Addictive: WHO

contributors

TeleSur | – – The committee is expected to make detailed recommendations based on an in-depth review in May 2018. The main ingredient, Cannabidiol, CBD found in Marijuana is neither harmful nor addictive, a new World Health Organization, WHO report has confirmed. CBD is a naturally occurring, non-psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis plants that has […]

African-Americans

African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official

contributors

TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN investigator. Extreme poverty, environmental degradation and toxic hazards in poor communities in the United States are facing increased international scrutiny following an inspection of rural Alabama communities by a United […]