She Got Her Baby Back From Immigration Foster Care. Now What?
Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2018-08-04
Houston, Texas — Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya clutched a stuffed unicorn outside the airport arrival gate Saturday morning, as her fiancé Juan Barrera Bucio paced back and forth. | He spotted the baby first. | "There's someone coming with a little girl," he said. "Yes, it's her." | It had been 103 days since Ferrera's 1-year-old daughter Liah landed in foster care for immigrant children, separated under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy after crossing the border with her uncle. Ferrera had left Honduras months earlier, when Liah was too small to travel. Ferrera made it into the US undetected, and the plan was for her brother to do the same with Liah, but he was caught and deported. Then the Department of Health and Human Services had to be convinced to give the baby back to Ferrera. | The department has…
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Why Trump's "Sloppy" Policies Get Stuck in Court
Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2018-08-04
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson's latest shots across President Trump's bow were heard around the country. Backed by other Democratic attorneys general, Ferguson sued the administration on Tuesday for abruptly ditching a legal effort to prevent a Libertarian developer from posting blueprints for 3-D printing lethal guns on his website, allowing a federal judge in Seattle to issue an injunction blocking their release just hours before the gun schematics were scheduled to go online. Alarming headlines about homemade guns thrust Ferguson into the national spotlight. | That same day, Ferguson and attorneys general from three other states warned the Trump administration that a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood would undermine reproductive health care guaranteed by federal law and therefore never hold up in court. Their lengthy letter to Trump's health czar foreshadows a high-profile legal battle as the debate…
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NHS trade unions' "best deal in eight years" revealed as a fraud
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-04
Health workers are expressing outrage as the truth about the latest union sellout comes to light.
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Gen X and Millennials Unite
Steven Dandaneau | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-03
Anyone who has to consult Pew or some other national opinion poll to discover that the vast majority of Millennials and a healthy majority of Gen Xers "disapprove" of the Trump Administration probably doesn't know anyone younger than fifty-four. The country needs to start taking these voices seriously. Political scientists slice and dice the electorate…
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The History of the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
Chris Wright | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-03
At a time when the American population is radicalizing, when popular movements are coalescing around "radical" demands–Medicare for All, the abolition of ICE, tuition-free college, in general the demand to make society livable for everyone–it can be useful to draw collective inspiration from the past. Irruptions of the popular will have on innumerable occasions reshaped…
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Thriving on Dark Web: The My Health Record and Data Insecurity
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-03
Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | Data is rarely inert. It moves, finds itself diverting, adjusting and adapting to users and distributors. Ultimately, as unspectacular and banal as it might be, data sells, pushing the price in …
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'Profit over health of innocents': Arkema indicted for Hurricane Harvey toxic chemical release
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-03
Top managers at French multinational Arkema could face up to five years in prison after the company was indicted for "reckless" emissions of toxic chemicals from its Houston, Texas plant during last year's Hurricane Harvey.
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Trump Administration's Breastmilk War Exposes Backchannel Politics in Health Care
Michelle Chen | progressive.org | 2018-08-02
Nipplegate has a long history in the Global South.
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Health Care Lobbyists Secretly Secure Democrats' Opposition to "Medicare for All," Internal Documents Show
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2018-08-02
A lobby group approached a raft of candidates for a Democratic congressional primary in Hawaii — then prepared internal dossiers on their positions. | The post Health Care Lobbyists Secretly Secure Democrats' Opposition to "Medicare for All," Internal Documents Show appeared first on The Intercept.
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Australian government promises changes to My Health Records following widespread opposition
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-02
The "opt out" health database faces mounting public concern over official and corporate surveillance.
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Building the Movement for Medicare for All
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2018-08-01
This week was the 53rd anniversary of Medicare, created in the middle of the social agitation of the 1960s. Benjamin Day of Healthcare-NOW! talks about how today, we are in the middle of similar upheaval.
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Reporting on Medicare for All Makes Media Forget How Math Works
Justin Anderson | fair.org | 2018-07-31
CBS News (7/30/18) | "Medicare for All," a federally funded universal healthcare plan championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont–Ind.), has quickly become a key issue for progressive voters evaluating Democratic Party candidates for the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential race. The plan would provide coverage for the 40 million currently uninsured in the United States, a gap that is estimated to cause tens of thousands of deaths annually. Despite this, Medicare for All has received no shortage of negative coverage in the media, all revolving around the same question: Just how are we going to pay for it? | A study on the cost of Medicare for All was recently conducted by Charles Blahous for the libertarian-leaning Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Blahous' study projected that Sanders' Medicare for All system,…
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Thanks to the Koch Brothers, We Have More Proof that Single Payer Saves Money and Cares for All of Us
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2018-07-31
Thanks to the Koch Brothers, We Have More Proof that Single Payer Saves Money and Cares for All of Us appeared first on The Nation.
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Openly anti-Trump academics hired to fix Twitter's 'conversational health' — the Right not impressed
RT | rt.com | 2018-07-31
For the sake of "healthy conversation," Twitter has put together a research team to combat prejudice and discrimination. Soon, conservatives noticed the new task force was staffed with #Resistance members and Trump haters.
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Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That "Medicare for All" Would Cut Health Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2018-07-30
A Koch brothers-backed economist makes a $3 trillion error, but still finds that "Medicare for All" reduces costs and boosts wages. | The post Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That "Medicare for All" Would Cut Health Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops. appeared first on The Intercept.
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State of emergency in Michigan county as tested water is 20 times the safe level for PFAS chemicals
RT | rt.com | 2018-07-30
A state of emergency has been declared in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, after high levels of man-made PFAS chemicals were found in the drinking water in two towns. The contaminants pose severe health risks and can lead to cancer.
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'Every necessary precaution': Fear of Ebola spreading places Denver hospital on lockdown
RT | rt.com | 2018-07-30
A possible Ebola infection has prompted Denver Health Medical Center to go into temporary lockdown, as medical staff in hazmat suits handled a patient who recently returned from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Spectacular" Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-07-27
The 2018 midterm election season has been roiled by the internal divisions between the Democratic Party's growing progressive base and the more conservative party establishment. In New York City, this division came to a head with the most shocking upset of the election season so far, when 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily defeated 10-term incumbent Representative Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Ocasio-Cortez ran a progressive grassroots campaign as a Democratic Socialist advocating for "Medicare for All" and the abolition of ICE. For more on her victory and what it means for the…
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Venezuela to Invest €293m to Modernise Public Health System as National Nurses' Strike Continues
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-23
Maduro has called for a "revolution within the revolution" in the health sector.
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What Does Jeff Bezos have to Offer Health Care?
Karim Sariahmed | progressive.org | 2018-07-08
A new team of billionaires, led by a prominent surgeon and storyteller, has plans for our health care system.
progressive.org/dispatches/what-does-jef…