(2021-03-23). Why we Must pass The Medicare for All Act. juancole.com Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — March 17, 2021, was a very bright day in the history of single-payer health insurance and public health in the USA. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D, WA) and Debbie Dingell, (D., MI) introduced the modern MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT of 2021 (H.R. 1976) in Congress. M4A 2021 is new …
(2021-03-23). Association Between Proportion of Black Patients Cared for at Hospitals and Penalties in CMS Value-Based Payment Programs. jamanetwork.com This study evaluates whether US hospitals with mostly Black patients are more likely than other hospitals to have penalties associated with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) value-based payment programs.
(2021-03-23). Association of Clinician Minority Patient Caseload With Performance in the 2019 Medicare MIPS. jamanetwork.com This study assesses the association between US clinicians' caseload of minority patients and their 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System performance score.
(2021-03-23). Sexual Minorities Have Greater COVID-19 Risk Factors. jamanetwork.com Gay, lesbian, or bisexual adults have higher rates than heterosexual people of health conditions that increase the risk of developing severe COVID-19, according to national survey data.
(2021-03-23). The War of Hunger is Taking Over From the War of Guns…and All Syrians are the Victims. counterpunch.org 
Great dollops of hypocrisy invariably accompany expressions of concern by outside powers for the wellbeing of the Syrian people. But even by these low standards, a new record for self-serving dishonesty is being set by the Caesar Civilian Protection Act, the new US law imposing the harshest sanctions in the world on Syria and bringing millions of Syrians to the brink of famine.
(2021-03-23). BOOK: The Water Defenders. ips-dc.org 
THE WATER DEFENDERS: | HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE SAVED A COUNTRY FROM CORPORATE GREED: | Robin Broad | John Cavanagh: | Introduction: | Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. | The movements waging these struggles can take some inspiration from El Salvador. | In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined the global community of…
(2021-03-23). Review of Hearing Loss in Children. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The article by Dr Lieu and colleagues about hearing loss in children notably omitted the important topic of noise-induced hearing loss. Prevention of disease is almost always better and less expensive than treatment. The only treatment currently available for hearing loss is amplification, via hearing aids, personal sound amplification products, or cochlear implants. Hearing loss with age, which is predominantly due to noise-induced hearing loss, begins at an early age and is theoretically preventable with avoidance of loud noise. The only evidence-based noise exposure level to prevent noise-induced…
(2021-03-23). Envisioning the Veterans Affairs Health Care System of the Future. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint proposes strategies the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system can pursue to shore up its mission in response to declining numbers of veterans and impending budget constraints, including accelerating a transition to value-based care, optimization of infrastructure, and strengthening engagement with employees and the public.
(2021-03-23). Video: "Police On Guard for Thee": Toronto Police Officers Challenge "Unconstitutional Public Health Measures" globalresearch.ca For those officers who are silent while we are ordered to …
(2021-03-23). Federally Qualified Health Centers and Related Primary Care Workforce Issues. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint proposes education, training, and funding reforms to expand the primary care workforce to supply federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), government-funded community-based health care sites that by providing safety-net primary care in underserved areas will be vital to addressing health inequities in the US.
(2021-03-23). Video: "Police On Guard for Thee": Toronto Police Officers Challenge "Unconstitutional Public Health Measures" globalresearch.ca Len Faul is a retired former Inspector with the Toronto Police. …
(2021-03-23). An Open Letter to Columbia Graduate Students from the IYSSE at University of Michigan. wsws.org The issues being fought for by graduate students—a living wage, job security, better health care coverage and improved working conditions—are the same issues that confront students, young people and workers across the country and around the world.
(2021-03-23). New court filings for Abu-Jamal's appeal. workers.org 
As his 67th birthday nears, and Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal faces challenging and potentially fatal health crises, his legal case is still slowly winding its way through the arduous appellate court system. "Free Mumia" signs at the March 20 Harlem rally in solidarity with Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., . . . |
(2021-03-23). "Good Ideas Are Not Enough, We Need to Marry Our Ideas to Power" zcomm.org Interview on the heartbreaks and new opportunities of both Bernie campaigns, the left agenda she will bring to Capitol Hill, and why policies like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are racial justice issues…
(2021-03-23). Why we Must pass The Medicare for All Act. zcomm.org Everyone knows that this inhumane system should have been corrected long ago, but the death and illness ravages of the pandemic crisis makes it impossible to any longer avoid reality…
(2021-03-23). Headlines for March 23, 2021. democracynow.org Man with AR-15 Assault Rifle Kills 10 in Boulder, CO, Supermarket, Colorado Judge Overturned Boulder's Ban on Assault Weapons One Week Ahead of Massacre, CDC Warns Against Relaxing Public Health Measures at "Critical Point in the Pandemic", AstraZeneca Submitted "Outdated Information" in COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Application, WHO Decries "Grotesque" Vaccination Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations, Saudi Arabia Proposes Yemen Ceasefire; Houthis Demand End to Devastating Blockade First, Hundreds Missing, Tens of Thousands Displaced by Fire in Rohingya Refugee Camp, 137 Killed in Niger Attacks After Constitutiona…
(2021-03-23). Europe Do Not Rule Out Link Between AstraZeneca and Coagulation. telesurenglish.net European Medicines Agency (EMA) Director Emer Cooke on Tuesday announced clinical and laboratory reports do not yet allow a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the blood clotting cases to be definitively ruled out. | RELATED: | She recalled that the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) recommended raising awareness of potential risks to help healthcare professionals follow up on symptoms that may occur after vac…
(2021-03-23). There Is No Vaccine for Global Warming. thenation.com There Is No Vaccine for Global Warming…
(2021-03-23). COVID-19 Vaccine Tested on Babies Even as Death Toll Mounts. Greatest Public Health Calamity in Modern History. globalresearch.ca If early statistics are any indication, we are facing the greatest …
(2021-03-23). Mexico Dispatches Its First Batch of CanSino COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard Monday informed that 940,022 CanSino vaccines were packaged in his country and began to be distributed. | RELATED: | These doses were packaged at the Drugmex plant in Queretaro where Birmex laboratories are in charge of the distribution. Previously, Mexico purchased 35 million doses from China. | Ebrard noted that this vaccine is highly effective and it avoids hos…
(2021-03-23). The US Indo-Pacific Strategy and Its Delusions. dissidentvoice.org Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent Anchorage meeting between Chinese and US officials, the larger dimensions of the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States, and how all of this ties into the politics around vaccines that dominates global diplomacy today.
(2021-03-23). New Research Points to Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine and Blood Clots. globalresearch.ca Researchers in Norway and Germany say they've identified antibodies that provoke …
(2021-03-23). European vaccine crisis worsens with EU set to vote on export ban. wsws.org Nothing is more disgusting than the sight of Johnson and Von der Leyen competing for the moral high ground. Both are implementing trade war policies.
(2021-03-23). Israel's Discriminatory Vaccine Push Underscores Need for Action on behalf of Palestinians. juancole.com Human Rights Watch Statement — Item 7 General Debate ( Human Rights Watch ) — As millions of Israelis slowly return to normalcy, with the majority of citizens vaccinated, millions of Palestinians just a short distance away in the occupied territory return to lockdown, with the prospect of mass vaccination nowhere in sight. The Israeli …
(2021-03-23). Four Ways to Support Latinas/os during the Pandemic and Beyond. counterpunch.org 
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only devastated the U.S. economy, healthcare system and educational way of learning, it has also exposed or exasperated the racial and class inequalities in the formal economy (and informal economy). (The informal economy is also known as the unregulated economy, among other terms.) While it's true that pandemic has impacted
(2021-03-23). Selected Articles: Toronto Police Officers Challenge "Unconstitutional Public Health Measures" globalresearch.ca 
By For those officers who are silent while we are ordered to enact questionable polic…