News and Analysis: Health care

Nathalie Hrizi for California State Insurance Commissioner

Abolish the insurance companies!

January 14, 2014

The Hrizi campaign will fight for single-payer health care and demands an immediate moratorium on all insurance rate and premium hikes.

Pink ribbons and racism

Black women more likely to die of breast cancer

December 20, 2013

Black women with a breast cancer diagnosis will die three years sooner than their white women with the same disease.

Affordable Care Act leaves 8 million poor people without health care

Workers left to die while corporations profit

October 7, 2013

After being galvanized to come out and vote for Obama, the most oppressed communities in the country—poor and working people of color—have been cheated out of a right to health care.

Government shut down, 800,000 Federal workers laid off – Why?

Statement from the PSL - Party for Socialism and Liberation

October 1, 2013

The official shutdown of the U.S. government underscores the fully reactionary character of the capitalist-controlled political process in this country. Why is the government shut down?

Pittsburgh: Profitable ‘non-profit’ should pay taxes

Unions, community unite to demand social justice

October 1, 2013

Despite its status, the “$10 billion integrated global health enterprise” can be described as anything but charitable.

'Obamacare': what it is and what it is not

For-profit basis is the problem

September 27, 2013

Liberals have rushed to the law’s defense, while reactionaries call it a waste of resources, an acceleration of “Taxmageddon,” and an attack on religious freedoms.

Adjunct instructor’s death illustrates evils of capitalism

Elderly woman hounded to death by greedy employer’s practices

September 25, 2013

This story of the death of a beloved 83-year-old French teacher is sad and it illustrates some of the worst aspects of the capitalist system.

Pushing the mentally ill into prisons

Conditions of an earlier era return

June 24, 2013

A talk given at a forum organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) at the Sol Collective in Sacramento, Calif.

Coal giants move to deny workers' benefits

Created new companies that then declared bankruptcy

June 14, 2013

A battle between capitalists and workers is raging in St. Louis, Mo. Peabody Coal, Arch Coal and a dubious spin-off of the two, Patriot coal, are attempting to strip current and former employees of their hard won health care benefits.

Annual report rates best and worst countries in which to be a mother

US mothers suffer highest newborn death rate of industrial world

May 8, 2013

Just in time for Mother's Day, the charity Save the Children issued its annual report on the best and worst countries in which to be a mother, with a special focus on the issue of newborn deaths.

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