Puerto Rico is being forced to cut Medicaid to reduce its debt
The federal government only pays 17% of Puerto Rico’s Medicaid costs to begin with, compared to 70% for the states, so further cuts will devastate the Island even more
Medicine’s Financial Contamination
The fall from grace last week of Dr. José Baselga, the former chief scientific officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, illuminated a longstanding problem of modern medicine: Potentially corrupting payments by drug and medical device makers to influential people at research hospitals are far more common than either side publicly acknowledges.
Learning from the history of the fight to pass Medicare …
The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today’s movement to win for Medicare for All.
States Rein In Prescription Costs, and Drug Companies Fight Back
The burst of state activity on drug costs recalls the way states acted on their own to pass laws to expand health insurance coverage in the years before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010
UHCAN’s August National Call
#MedOuttheVote, Birddogging for health care, Putting the “All” into Medicare for All, New York Health bill gathering steam
How corporate health care interests try to scare us
In this column for Tarbell, Wendell Potter describes how corporate health care interests sow “fear, uncertainty and doubt,” referred to by insiders as a “FUD campaign,” to scare the public from supporting anything that undermines their profits.
Health care rising as a midterm issue
Two issues – protections for people with pre-existing conditions and drug prices – have unique bipartisan traction
Building the movement for affordable medicines
The first-ever Affordable Medicines Now Conference June 27-29 in Washington, DC was organized by Public Citizen and co-hosted by the O’Neill Center for National and Global Health, together with a number of partners. The purpose was to strengthen and expand the...
2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference
The 2018 Single Payer Strategy Conference took place June 22-24 in Minneapolis, MN was hosted by Healthcare-Now and the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare. The meeting drew several hundred activists from all over the country for a weekend of inspiration and...July National UHCAN Call
NOT A TIME FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL — Immigration, reproductive justice, labor rights, Supreme Court vacancy, Medicare for All, affordable medicines