As an Investor in Biotech Stock, Republican Chris Collins May Have Overshared
Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-10
Rep. Chris Collins never stopped telling friends and family about his involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics, a small Australian biotech company. | The New York Republican sat on Innate's board and had invested millions in the company. His son owned Innate shares. So did numerous friends as well as Tom Price, a fellow congressman who became secretary of Health and Human Services in 2017. | "I talk about it all the time," Collins once said of Innate to CNN. | He talked one time too many, according to federal prosecutors who on Wednesday charged him and two others with violating insider trading laws. | Collins leaked sensitive information about a failed clinical trial last year that quickly reached seven people who were able to dump Innate shares before the bad news got out, according to an indictment filed Wednesday in US District…
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Court Bans Harmful Pesticide that Trump EPA Tried to Keep on the Market
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-10
The court's decision was a rare and hard-fought victory over the deals often made between the EPA and major chemical corporations behind closed doors at the expense of public health. | The post Court Bans Harmful Pesticide that Trump EPA Tried to Keep on the Market appeared first on MintPress News.
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US can afford 'unlimited war' but not Medicare for all, says Ocasio-Cortez
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-09
Democratic socialist and Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed Republicans for funding tax cuts and America's "unlimited war," while refusing to provide universal healthcare.
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The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care
Nick Surgey | theintercept.com | 2018-08-09
Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. | The post The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care appeared first on The Intercept.
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Dozens Killed in Saudi-led Coalition Bombing of Bus in Yemen: UK Has Licensed £4.7 Billion of Arms to Saudi Forces Since War Began
CAAT, Campaign Against Arms Trade | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-09
This morning the Saudi-led coalition was accused of bombing a school bus in Yemen. Dozens of people have been killed, mainly children. | Abdul-Ghani Nayeb, a health department chief in …
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Faulty vaccines spark public outrage in China
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-08
The scandal is the result of cost-cutting measures aimed at boosting profits and subordination of healthcare to the capitalist system.
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New Zealand Nurses Organisation rams through sellout pay deal
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-08
The union is trying to present the agreement, which fails to address the crisis in the public health system, as a victory.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/08/nzno…
Sarah Smith Takes on 21-Year Incumbent Adam Smith in Washington's 9th Congressional District
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-07
Sarah Smith worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign. She is a young working class woman who was asked by Brand New Congress to run the Washington's 9th Congressional district seat against a long time liberal incumbent. She has knocked on 13,000 doors with her message of health care for all and making the Democrats the… | The post Sarah Smith…
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Republicans Want to Force People to Work for Their Health Care–What Could Go Wrong?
Michelle Chen | thenation.com | 2018-08-07
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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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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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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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