Media

Is Private Equity Really ‘Taking Over’ US Healthcare?

John Canham-Clyne / FAIR Jan 19, 2024 No, it’s not. And pretending that it is obscures the real problem. Dig deeper ( 20 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 )

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 )

Chinese Doctor Who Sounded the Alarm About Virus Outbreak Dies

KEN MORITSUGU / The Associated Press Feb 6, 2020 Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded by authorities in late December for "spreading rumors," succumbs to illness that has killed more than 560. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Closing the ‘Death Gap’ Between the Rich and Poor

Lauren Worth / OtherWords Oct 9, 2019 Working-class Americans die younger. While government solutions are sorely needed, there are ways for local communities to address the issue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Halts Louisiana Abortion Clinic Law for Now

The Associated Press Feb 1, 2019 The law requiring doctors at the state's three clinics to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital was to take effect Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Shooting at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital Leaves 4 Dead

By AMANDA SEITZ and DON BABWIN / Associated Press Nov 19, 2018 Killed were a doctor, a pharmacy resident, a policeman and the gunman himself. A quarrel between former lovers was reportedly involved. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Tens of Thousands of University of California Staffers Strike

Ilana Novick / Truthdig May 9, 2018 Workers seeking better pay and benefits are quickly picking up support from other unions as well as students. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers

Annie Waldman / ProPublica Dec 28, 2017 An analysis shows that women who deliver at facilities that disproportionately serve African-Americans are at a higher risk of harm. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Barrel Bombs

Jeff Danziger / Truthdig Oct 4, 2016 Dig deeper

Huntington Hospital Values Profits Over People

By Peter Dreier Jun 20, 2016 The deaths of 11 patients and the California Nurses Association’s battle to unionize nurses at the hospital in Pasadena, Calif, is emblematic of a larger problem—the corporatization of health care The deaths of 11 patients and the California Nurses Association’s battle to unionize nurses at the hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Commercially Driven Spike in Drug Shortages Endangers Lives

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2016 Emergency room doctors are reaching for medicines that aren’t there after drug shortages jumped more than fivefold between 2008 and 2014. And experts say drug companies are to blame. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )