Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Endorses Leif Dautch for San Francisco District Attorney
Dautch for DA | indybay.org | 2018-10-15
Latest prominent endorsement fuels grassroots campaign for District Attorney.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/13/1881819…
New Strategy: Democrats Go All-In on Health Care in Midterms
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-14
While Democratic enthusiasm this year has largely been fueled by anger toward President Trump, candidates are focusing their messaging on health care. | The post New Strategy: Democrats Go All-In on Health Care in Midterms appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/new-strategy-democ…
Five Questions For: Author Suzanne Gordon on the VA as a 'Model for American Health Care'
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2018-10-14
"Many liberals and progressives who don't buy the propaganda about climate, or about education, buy the propaganda about the VA."
progressive.org/dispatches/author-suzann…
Maine's Radical Universal Home Health Care Proposition
Naomi LaChance | truthdig.com | 2018-10-14
For the state's elderly and disabled populations, as well as for home care workers, the measure could bring much-needed relief–but state business groups are trying to stop it. | The post Maine's Radical Universal Home Health Care Proposition appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/maines-radical-uni…
Five Ways to Make Direct Action Organizing Less Ableist
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2018-10-14
There is an ableist misconception that those with disabilities don't participate in marches, rallies, lockdowns and resistance camps. In reality, we are here and more of us would like to get in on the action. | I am multiply disabled due to a host of illnesses, chronic pain and mobility impairments. The issues of ableism have been a constant plague for me. I've lost jobs, wages, friends, family, romantic partners and more due to others' unwillingness to make necessary accommodations and supports for me. | I also experience ableism in activist organizing spaces that purport to support the rights of the marginalize…
truthout.org/articles/five-ways-to-make-…
The Case for a Non-Profit Single-Payer Healthcare System
Joel A. Harrison | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-12
Introduction Our current fragmented, dysfunctional, for-profit health care system is broken. Internationally we rank poorly in both process and outcomes; yet, we are by far the most expensive health care system in the world. Not only we do we not get a bang for our bucks; but for many of us from a moral perspective…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/12/the-case-for…
Decades After Taking Henrietta Lacks's Cells Without Consent, Johns Hopkins Names Building After Her
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-12
Johns Hopkins University has announced plans to name a new research building after Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who permanently changed modern medicine nearly 70 years ago when it was discovered that her cells could live forever. These "immortal cells" have helped scientists produce remedies for numerous diseases, including the first polio vaccine, that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But Lacks's cells were taken without her consent when she was a patient at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in 1951. For decades, the woman whose cells would transform modern medicine was unknown. Instead,…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/12/decades_…
Lead at some Detroit schools 50 times the allowable federal level
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-12
A new report on lead and copper in Detroit schools reveals the acute health dangers facing working class families due to the massive deterioration in education funding.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/12/lead…
Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Death Penalty
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-11
Washington is now the 20th state to abolish capital punishment as the public continues to sour on the barbaric practice. | On Oct. 11, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously struck down the death penalty as unconstitutional, ruling the "death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased matter" and "it fails to serve any legitimate penological goal." The death penalty is a punishment that is as flawed as it is final, and as the Washington high court acknowledges, one plagued by racial bias and arbitrariness.
aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/racial-…
Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNN and Don Lemon's Show for Mocking and Stigmatizing Kanye West's Hospitalization
Glenn Greenwald | theintercept.com | 2018-10-11
Just four months after the tragic suicide of their own colleague, Anthony Bourdain, CNN promotes a dangerous segment that weaponizes mental health struggles for cheap political gain. | The post Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNN and Don Lemon's Show for Mocking and Stigmatizing Kanye West's Hospitalization appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/10/11/mental-healt…
Jury Sends Wisconsin a $780,000 Bill for Denying Health Care to Two Transgender Workers
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-11
A growing number of courts are ruling that transgender public employees should have access to transition-related health care. | Shannon Andrews just helped bring comprehensive health care coverage to transgender state employees across Wisconsin. Even more reassuring, she proved that average Americans understand that discrimination against transgender people comes with a cost. | Shannon supervises a cancer research lab at the University of Wisconsin. Like other state employees, she gets health care insurance through the state. But as a transgender woman, Shannon faced state rules that specifically excluded coverag…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-ri…
Medicare for All Is Officially Winning
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2018-10-10
Medicare for All Is Officially Winning…
thenation.com/article/medicare-for-all-i…
Trump savages Medicare for All, as more Americans embrace socialism
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-10
President Trump once again lambasted the idea of socialized healthcare, as Medicare for All becomes a mainstream Democrat position and more and more Americans warm to the idea of socialism.
rt.com/usa/440901-trump-medicare-sociali…
Is Donald Trump Mentally Fit to Be President? Dr. Bandy Lee Questions Trump's Capacity to Govern
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-03
As questions swirl around Brett Kavanaugh's eligibility to join the Supreme Court, some are asking if President Donald Trump should have had the power to nominate him in the first place. We speak with Dr. Bandy Lee, forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, about Trump's mental state and the possibility of removing him from office using the 25th Amendment. Dr. Lee is an internationally recognized expert on violence. She is the editor of the best-selling book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President."
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/3/is_donald…
Mental Health Experts Demand Psychological Assessment of Kavanaugh for Drinking, Instability
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-03
Donald Trump openly mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a rally Tuesday, casting doubt on her claims that Brett Kavanaugh had tried to rape her in high school, just days after calling her a very credible witness. As the FBI continues its investigation into Dr. Blasey Ford's claims, a group of mental health experts are calling for Kavanaugh to undergo a full psychological and substance abuse assessment before the Senate votes on his confirmation. We speak with Dr. Bandy Lee of the Yale School of Medicine, the lead author of a letter titled "Mental Health Experts Urge Examination Based on Warning Signs in Kavanaugh…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/3/mental_he…
Edge of Sports: A Sports World Worth Fighting For
Dave Zirin | progressive.org | 2018-10-01
If we expand access as well as attitudes toward sports–having people be healthier, happier, and better-adjusted through exercise–that alone could trigger a tremendous change in our society.
progressive.org/magazine/edge-of-sports-…
China's Arch of Peace Vessel Docks in Venezuela for Health Mission
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-09-24
A Chinese hospital ship has arrived in Venezuela as part of the recently signed agreements between the nations.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14063