Nurses: Medicare For All means health won't depend on your wealth
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-12
WASHINGTON–When a baby in California named Evan became very ill 10 years ago, his single mother lacked the money to take him to the doctor and foot the bill for the needed co-pay. So she called her mother, Evan's grandmother, a registered nurse, for advice. The grandmother listened to the symptoms and told her daughter …
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British Voters Are Terrified of US Companies Privatizing the NHS. They Should Be
Astra Taylor | commondreams.org | 2019-12-12
Demonstrators wearing masks of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson take part in a protest for keeping the National Health Service (NHS) publicly owned outside Downing Street in central London. (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Emergency Life & Death Staffing Crisis At SFGH: SEIU1021 Nurses Speak At SF Board of Sups
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-12-12
SEIU 1021 San Francisco General Hospital nurses spoke at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on 12-10-19 about severe health and safety conditions for the patients and staff.
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Twin Flower, about the refugee crisis, from Italy–and Midnight Family, about poverty and health care, from Mexico
wsws.org | 2019-12-12
Two adolescents–one an African refugee–find themselves in painful straits in Twin Flower. Midnight Family focuses on a family in Mexico eking out a meager existence by driving its own private ambulance.
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Should Students Get Mental Health Days Off From School?
Natalie Proulx | indybay.org | 2019-12-12
With both Oregan and Utah recently passing bills to allow their students to take a mental health day has caused a huge debate. First of all, what is a mental health in the first place? We should see it as a way for students to be able to take a day off from school in order to get their mind in the right place to focus on their school work. Whether it be that they are having anxiety attacks, being bullied or even just feel like everything in their life at the moment is just overwhelming them. All these can be extremely distracting to a students mind and could set them farther back in their school work compared to…
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South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in 'race against time'
news.un.org | 2019-12-12
The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future.
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Glyphosate and Roundup Proven to Disrupt Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting Shikimate Pathway
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-12
Fatty liver disease and death of liver tissue were also confirmed in rats fed regulatory permitted and thus presumed safe doses of the weedkiller | The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides kill plants is by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, …
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Ex-NFL players charged over alleged multimillion-dollar healthcare scam
rt.com | 2019-12-12
Several former NFL players have been charged with fraud in connection with the league healthcare benefit plan for purchases of medical rehabilitation equipment. | Former Washington Redskins All-Pro running back Clinton Portis is the biggest name involved in the case that includes nine other former NFL players. Two grand jury indictments accuse the players of defrauding the benefit plan out of more than $3 million. | The benefit plan was originally established to help former NFL players with out-of-pocket healthcare payments for long-term injuries and health issues suffered as a result of playing professional f…
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Ocasio-Cortez Makes Connection Between 20% Jump in Healthcare Costs and Industry-Sponsored Spa Days for Congressional Staffers
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-12
As end-of-the-year reports showed healthcare costs for Americans rose 20% in 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez highlighted evidence of the cozy relationship between the for-profit health insurance industry and lawmakers. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say 'Peak Livestock' Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-12
In an open letter to The Lancet Planetary Health journal Wednesday, a group of scientists called for reaching "peak livestock" production and pursuing dramatic efforts to restore vegetation in the next decade to curb planet-heating emissions, increase natural carbon sequestration, and avert climate catastrophe. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Immigration Centers, New 'Cash Cow' of Prison Industry: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-11
An investigation led by the well-known civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center on immigrant detention centers in Florida showed seriously substandard conditions in health services, as well as the confinement and isolation of undocumented immigrants. | RELATED: , US Advocacy Group Launches 'Quit ICE' Initiative | In a report released Tuesday, the SPLC condemned, among others, the failures in medical care, inadequate mental health service, discrimi…
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Israel Heads to Historic 3rd Straight Election After Parliament Vote
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-11
JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament on Wednesday dissolved after failing to meet a midnight deadline for forming a new government, triggering an unprecedented third election in a 12-month period while giving scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a welcome break as he fights to save his political career. | After months of political deadlock following a September election, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the first of three votes required to dissolve the parliament and set a March 2 date for new elections. | But after a midnight deadline passed, parliament was automatically dissolved. Lawmakers were co…
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Universal Health Coverage will 'drive progress' on 2030 Development Agenda
news.un.org | 2019-12-11
Last September world leaders at the United Nations endorsed an ambitious political declaration on universal health coverage, "reaffirming that health is a human right", Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday in his message for International Universal Health Coverage Day.
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Detainee Zahran Continues Strike For 80th Day
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-11
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Ahmad Zahran, 42, imprisoned by Israeli under repeatedly renewed arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, is ongoing with the hunger strike for the 80th consecutive day, despite his seriously deteriorating health condition. The PPS stated that the Israeli Prison Authority …
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Labour's pose as defender of the National Health Service exposed
wsws.org | 2019-12-11
Labour's claim to be the only party that will defend the NHS is the main reason many support the party. But like most of its main pledges, this too is without genuine substance.
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"Shame!" Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-11
Democracy Now! was broadcasting live from the United Nations climate summit in Madrid, Spain, when hundreds of climate advocates and people's movements at the U.N. climate action summit staged a protest inside the conference venue. As the demonstration unfolds, we speak with Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International; Nigerian climate activist Nnimmo Bassey with Health of Mother Earth Foundation; and indigenous climate activist Daiara Tukano from Brazil.
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Privatization at the NHS? American Business Interests Seek Growing Share of UK's Health System
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2019-12-10
The American health care industry has long had its sights on harnessing a wave of privatization and outsourcing in the U.K. system.
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Samoa measles outbreak claims 70 lives, majority are children under five
news.un.org | 2019-12-10
Seventy people have now died from Samoa's measles outbreak, UN humanitarians confirmed on Tuesday, as the organization released emergency funding to help the authorities step up efforts to eradicate the preventable disease.
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On Human Rights Day, Let's Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Martin Fleck | progressive.org | 2019-12-09
A nuclear war would create one of the worst humanitarian crises imaginable, one for which no nation would have an adequate emergency or health response.
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Inequality threatening human development, new global UN report warns
news.un.org | 2019-12-09
Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a "new generation of inequalities" indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday.
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Three Ways the "Fairness for All Act" Doesn't Protect LGBTQ People from Discrimination
Ian S. Thompson | aclu.org | 2019-12-09
On Friday, Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and | several of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced | the so-called "Fairness for All Act." The bill is being described by its | supporters as a compromise that protects both LGBTQ people and religious | liberty. | In reality, the bill facilitates the Trump | administration's ongoing efforts to give a greenlight to those who would turn | LGBTQ people away from jobs, health care, housing, even taxpayer-funded | programs, simply because of who they are. The bill also weakens some | longstanding protections in federal and state laws…
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What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-12-03
Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea.
progressive.org/dispatches/uk-election-u…
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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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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