Category: Social and Economic Conditions

June 12, 2019   Political momentum is building around the urgent need for the United States...

By Stephen Soumerai  and Kip Sullivan   May 21, 2019   Federal programs designed to cut...

By Adam Cancryn, Politico   April 2, 2019 Wendell Primus told roughly two dozen attendees at...

By Charles Andrews   March 1, 2019   The Democratic Party won a majority in the House of...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente   January 6, 2019   I’ve avoided writing about hospitals...

Editors’ note: Right-wing populism is on the march. It holds government office in a number...

December 17, 2018   Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal 319 Cannon House Office Building...

Editors’ note: This article by two prominent health policy experts and long-time...

By Joel A. Harrison   August 10, 2018   Our current fragmented, dysfunctional,...

By Vijay Prashad October 12, 2018 In 1992, Fidel Castro of Cuba went to Rio de Janeiro , Brazil...

By Kay Tillow September 29, 2018 It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the advocates...

Editors’ Note: Public disgust with the existing US healthcare-for-profit system is so...

By Kay Tillow Aug. 6, 2018 On July 13, 2018, in an article [1]  on Vox, Tim Higginbotham and Chris...

By Amanda Buddenbaum   June 20, 2018   “We remain the only major country on earth that...

By Margaret Kimberley   Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $105 billion and is the...

By Kay Tillow May 15, 2018 On May 14, 2018, Kentucky Voices for Health sponsored a conference in...

By Bob Bonner April 4, 2018 The author worked 17 years in the VA system as a nurse. For twelve...

By Ralph Nader March 23, 2018 Medicare for all is what the Pentagon does. It is what President...