Tag: healthcare

It's no surprise republicans want to eliminate anything resembling a social program that helps the poor, elderly, and middle class. Since its passage in 1965,...

It happens to millions every year. They have a medical emergency and assume their health insurance will cover the costs. Then a month or so later...

To date, more than 390,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19. As of Saturday, there are 23,644,885 confirmed cases in the United States. By the time you read...

If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it’s our societal inequities. When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies...

If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it's our societal inequities. When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies...

A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero. Looking and sounding far more...

The redder the state, the shorter the life. That is the argument economist Paul Krugman lays out in a December 2 New York Times column in...

During his run for president, Donald Trump promised Americans he would give them "better" and "cheaper" healthcare than they are offered under the Affordable...

We will probably have universal healthcare in this country within our lifetimes. If you're a New York City resident, though, you needn't wait any longer. Although...

Chances are you've recently purchased something from Amazon.com. Maybe it was books. Maybe clothes. Maybe an appliance or a tool. Maybe you streamed a movie...

In the wake of the tax bill, President Donald Trump shifted his confrontational tactics. After the president signed the partisan legislation, the White House...

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was confronted on the Senate floor by his colleague, Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), for not doing enough to save the Children's...

They're at it again. As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill...

Republicans failed yet again to “repeal and replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, with the “Graham-Cassidy-Johnson-Heller” health care bill...

Some European people on Quora answered the question: "As a European, would you prefer the US healthcare system?" The short, resounding answer was no....

A shift is happening in the Democrat Party. As many saw with the primaries last year, the Democrats were divided about whether to take...

A handful of Democratic senators are pledging to co-sponsor independent Sen. Bernie Sanders's plan for single payer healthcare coverage in the United States. At least...

Ever since the failure of the Senate to pass their cruel repeal and replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), President Trump...

According to many conservatives, the Affordable Care Act--aka Obamacare--is the worst thing to ever happen to this country. They love to rail against a...

The Congressional Budget Office survived two major assaults on its existence earlier this week. The House of Representatives considered two amendments to a spending bill...