Ear to the Ground

Pharmaceutical Companies, Physician Bring Court Challenges to State Abortion Laws

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2023 Lawsuits filed in West Virginia and North Carolina have challenged those states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

Doctors Seek to Bar Corporate Control of Health Practices

Bernard J. Wolfson / Undark Jan 3, 2023 Organizers are pushing for stiffer prohibitions on the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Opinion

Fixing the Broken American Healthcare System is Not Actually Hard

Sonali Kolhatkar / IMI Dec 30, 2022 If only the health care system received the same treatment that military spending gets from politicians and the public. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Race

Why Is the American Health Care System Failing Pregnant Black Women?

Duaa Eldeib / ProPublica Dec 27, 2022 They are twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth and three times as likely to die in childbirth. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Labor

Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

David Bacon / Capital & Main Dec 20, 2022 Some Indigenous immigrant farmworkers in California visit community clinics where they choose to access western or nontraditional medicine. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

No More Empty Seats at Our Holiday Tables

Ellen Glover / Other Worlds Nov 25, 2022 The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act removes barriers to accessing buprenorphine and other treatments, and many lives can be saved if we pass it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Politics

How Low-income Voters Shaped the Midterm Elections

Shailly Gupta Barnes / Other Words Nov 17, 2022 Visions for living wages, health care, housing, and more beginning to take shape. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Health Care Workers and COVID 19

By John Cole Mar 20, 2020 Dig deeper

The Dem Primary is Over, and We Need Bernie Sanders to Lead on Health Care From the Senate

By David Faris / Informed Comment Mar 19, 2020 Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Why America Can’t Respond to the Current Crisis

Robert Reich / Truthdig Mar 17, 2020 We need a new system geared toward protecting public health – and not just when it's most urgently needed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ruthless Senate GOP Blocks Emergency Paid Sick Leave Bill

Julia Conley / Common Dreams Mar 11, 2020 Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the bill would guarantee all U.S. workers 14 days of paid sick leave during a public health emergency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Cash-Strapped Hospitals Can’t Handle the Coronavirus

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Mar 10, 2020 Years of budget cuts have destroyed our health care system, just when we need it most. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )