Tory PM Johnson Wants Britain's National Health Service Privatized
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
On Wednesday, Britain's Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn released secret Tory/Trump regime trade documents, showing Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is on the table for privatization. | Does Tory leader Boris Johnson want healthcare in Britain transformed into a US …
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I Have Multiple Sclerosis. Here's Why I Am Fighting for Medicare for All
Maggie Mills | commondreams.org | 2019-11-28
"So friends, family, fellow patriots," writes Mills, "please do not consider this injustice as one lesser than the other injustices you fight against on a daily basis. Consider the cruelty inflicted on the ill and disabled when we are told that we are not important enough to receive the civil right of healthcare, or that we must be patient and wait for it." (Photo: iStock/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Eating Is Profoundly Political. Which Food Future Will You Choose?
Jim Hightower | commondreams.org | 2019-11-28
Now the fastest-growing segment of the food economy, it is creating the alternative model of a local, sustainable, small-scale, community-based, organic, humane, healthy, democratic — and tasty! — food system for all. (Photo: PeopleImages/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Native Women Were Forcibly Sterilized — and They Fought Back
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-28
I was 12 years old when I first heard about the forced sterilization of my people. A close friend of my family — the kind of person you call "auntie," even though you're not related — who was Menominee, like me, told me and my sister that she worried about Native girls who were registered tribal members. Even though we didn't live on a reservation, our "auntie" feared the reach of the government and the violence it had so often disguised as "health care." She came of age during the 1970s, at the he…
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Armed groups kill Ebola health workers in eastern DR Congo
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-28
Deadly night-time attacks by armed groups have once again claimed the lives of frontline healthworkers helping to confront the deadly Ebola virus in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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New Online Tool Aims to Help You Have That Big Medicare for All Talk at This Year's Thanksgiving Feast
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-28
"Turkey, mashed potatoes, and arguing politics with your family: the holidays are just around the corner! But talking about politics doesn't have to get heated. The vast majority of people are unhappy with our hugely expensive, profit-driven health care system and are ready for a change." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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UK Health Service 'Up for Sale' in US Trade Deal: Leaked Docs
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-27
The United Kingdom Labour party's leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed Wednesday that Britain's National Health Service (NHS), which grants British citizens free healthcare at the point of access, was part of negotiations in a trade deal with the United States ahead of the country's exit from the European Union. | RELATED: | A Left Labour Gov't Would Weaken Imperialism, Work for Peace | Prime Minister Boris Johnson has categorically denied the allegations, however, hundreds of pages o…
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WHO working to save lives following powerful earthquake in Albania
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-27
Staff from the World Health Organization (WHO) are assisting authorities in Albania following an earthquake which killed at least 25 people and left more than 650 injured.
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Australian bushfire crisis spreads as PM denies climate change link
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-11-27
Even before summer has begun, bushfires and toxic smoke have threatened the lives, health and homes of millions of people in nearly every Australian state and territory this week. The fire emergencies that first erupted two weeks ago in two states have spread across the country, worsened by dust storms, asthma alerts and electricity blackouts. | Source…
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Google Secretly Harvests the Health Data of Millions
Julianne Tveten | truthdig.com | 2019-11-27
Google has been harvesting the health data of tens of millions of U.S. patients since 2018, unbeknownst to those patients or their doctors, as revealed by a Nov. 11 investigation by the Wall Street Journal. According to the story, Ascension, a private network of some 2,600 hospitals and other health care facilities, had been systematically feeding the medical information to Google's cloud infrastructure in what amounts to the largest data transfer in the health care fiel…
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If Medicare for All 'Too Risky,' How Would NYT Have Reported Push for Social Security, Abolition, or the Overthrow of King George III?
Mark Dudzic | commondreams.org | 2019-11-27
A middle-aged man reading the 'New York Times' in an armchair in this archive image. (Photo: George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Empowering people living with HIV 'will end the epidemic', says AIDS agency chief
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-26
When people living with HIV actively participate in their own care, new infections decline and more affected people access treatment, according to a new report launched on Tuesday by UNAIDS, the United Nations agency leading the fight against the disease.
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Riding Out for Medicare for All with a Back Full of Arrows
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2019-11-26
The barrage of false narratives being fired from influential Democrats, including Barack Obama, is obscuring Medicare for All's unique programmatic strength and broad political support in rhetorical smoke.
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UN agencies ramp up Somalia measles and polio campaign
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-24
A campaign to vaccinate some 1.7 million children in Somalia was launched on Sunday by the country's government, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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In WWII-Era Fashion, the Saudi-led Coalition is Weaponizing Disease in Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-22
TAIZ, YEMEN — Beyond the devastation it has caused on the back of tens of thousands of airstrikes, a crippling blockade and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure, the Saudi-led coalition supported by the United States has sparked an outbreak of disease and epidemics in Yemen in a manner not seen since World War II. | Yemeni activist Aseel Sweid told MintPress News how a young boy, Abdulkarim al-Ma'amari, "died of dengue fever after it spread with alarming speed in Taiz, threatening many innocents." Sweid added that three of his own brothers had been infected with dengue. "There are a huge amo…
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Congress Just Temporarily Extended the Government's Spying Powers
Neema Singh Guliani | aclu.org | 2019-11-21
Congress today temporarily extended the NSA's spying powers that time and again have been used to violate our rights. Disturbingly, this three-month extension was snuck into a broader funding bill, forcing members of Congress to choose between extending this program and causing a government shutdown. The extension is an unnecessary lifeline to spying programs that are plagued with compliance violations, have no proven intelligence value, and violate our rights. | Under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, one of the spying | powers extended, the government believes it has the right to collect our | personal inform…
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Make Dental Care a Health Care Benefit
Jess Pernsteiner | progressive.org | 2019-11-20
Dental care is not a luxury–it is essential for overall health.
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All out for relaunching of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Fight Back! interviews Frank Chapman on the November 22-24 Chicago conference to refound the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. | Fight Back!: Could you say a few words about what the conference to relaunch the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression will look like? | Frank Chapman: The most powerful incentive for the relaunching of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is the national epidemic in police crimes and state violence being perpetrated against Black and brown people, LBGTQ and trans people. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than th…
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CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
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Warren's Head Tax Is Not More Popular Than A Payroll Tax
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
As we know by now, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare head tax proposal is a regressive mess ( I, II, III, IV). Warren's team knows this. The goal of the proposal i…
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Warren's Medicare Head Tax Would Be About $9,500
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-03
On Friday, I wrote a piece arguing that Elizabeth Warren's use of an employer head tax was not a good way to fund Medicare for All and that instead the more conventional choices of income and payroll taxes would be better. The reason they are better is because income and payroll taxes are based on how much income you receive while a head tax charges the same dollar amount for every worker regardless of their income, making it much more onerous on the lower and middle classes. | This point holds…
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What Is a Middle Class Tax Hike? Am I Losing My Mind?
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-02
I have been swimming in the Medicare for All waters for over a decade now, going back to when I worked on the Ralph Nader presidential campaign that made Medicare for All its number one issue. And during this time, I developed a specific understanding of what we might call the M4A Financing Problem. | The Problem: | The M4A Financing Problem, in simple terms, is that even if you bring in existing federal spending on health care, existing state spending on health care, and a bunch of new rich-people taxes, you still fall short of financing the program. Thus to actually complete the financing, you have to u…
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Warren's Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-01
Elizabeth Warren released her Medicare for All financing plan today. The main purpose of the proposal appears to be to find a plan that you can message as "not increasing middle class taxes," which is of course a nonsensical goal insofar, as Warren herself has said, what matters is middle class health care costs, not whether you categorize those costs as premiums, taxes, or out-of-pocket expenses. | Nonetheless, bowing to the stupid media discourse on this, Warren put forward a financing pro…
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