En Passant

The discussion about breast cancer and its causes – and the health care industry’s failures – needs to be brought out of the shadows, writes Leela Yellesetty in Socialist Worker US.

Empower hospital staff to run their hospitals. Fund them adequately. Pay nurses more. Tax the rich to provide every Australian with a free universal health care system.

People weren’t voting for the Republicans in Massachusetts. They were voting against Obama’s business as usual administration.

The Stupak Amendment passed during the House debate on health care in the US is a blow to women’s abortion rights–poor women in particular.

The health care package the US House of Representatives recently passed is a historic and sweeping disaster for the hope that a Democratic president and Congress would finally do something to fix the screwed-up health care system that is a source of misery and suffering for so many people.

There may well be US health care reform by the end of the eyar. It will in all likelihood help the health insurance industry, not ordinary Americans.

Dennis Kosuth, a registered nurse in Chicago, explains why the health care “reform” on offer from the White House can’t solve America’s health care crisis

Can we humanise hospitals?   The fundamentally undemocratic society we live in leads me to conclude not. The profit system and the commodification of treatment and the rewards that flow to major participants like specialists, big pharmaceutical companies, insurance providers and medical technology companies, but not to nurses and general practitioners, reinforce that conclusion. Not only that,  they […]

Does a bill written to placate the health insurers, the pharmaceutical manufacturers and hospitals deserves any support at all?

Because liberals see the “progressive agenda” as melded with the White House’s, even their complaints about Obama’s concessions to corporations and “centrist” politicians fall by the wayside.