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New York City Home Care Workers Announce Hunger Strike On Mamdani’s Watch

April 13, 2026 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. , , , ,
New York City home care workers announced Wednesday they will start a hunger strike on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s watch beginning next week if promised City Council legislation ending mandatory round-the-clock shifts in the industry isn’t brought to the floor for a vote. “We have been here for more than a month and we have’t seen the mayor,” home care workers rallying outside City Hall said through an interpreter on Apr. 8. “They all made the promise. We will not wait again. We call on everyone, come back April 13, we continue the sit-in—and April 16 we go on hunger strike!” City Council Speaker Julie Menin [D-5th District] pledged to bring Intro. 303—the No More 24 bill—to the floor for a vote when she met with home care workers on Mar. 19—the second day of their latest sit-in outside the gates of City Hall.

Teamsters Health Care Workers To Picket Hospital For Fair Contract

April 13, 2026 Brandon Chew, People's World. , , , ,
Chicago, Illinois - University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) health care workers are “drastically underpaid” compared to other hospitals in Chicago, Debra Simmons-Peterson, president of Teamsters Local 743 told People’s World. Simmons-Peterson spoke at a rally Thursday in which hospital workers protested pay rates that don’t reflect the rising costs of living in the Chicago area. The health care workers’ collective bargaining agreement with the medical center expired on March 9. The rally included fellow Teamsters, SEIU Healthcare workers, as well as local pastors, alderpersons, and other elected officials, and the Chicago Federation of Labor.

Mexico Enacts Universal Healthcare

April 11, 2026 Stephen Prager, Scheer Post. , , ,
As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate for Medicare for All in the US called the development “both inspiring and frustrating.” “Inspiring because it shows what is possible,” Wendell Potter, a former insurance company communications director who has become a leading critic of the industry, told Common Dreams. “Frustrating because here in the US we are going in the opposite direction.”

Trump Says The United States Can’t Afford Day Care

April 3, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle-La Lucha. , , , , , , ,
Stocks fell before Trump finished speaking in his April Fool’s address to the nation. Oil jumped to $109 a barrel. Asian markets dropped. Futures tied to the S&P 500 slid. Borrowing costs rose as the bond market, already strained by weeks of war spending, took another hit. This was not a reaction to the battlefield. It was a reaction to the president of the United States standing before the country with no way out of the war. Trump declared victory and threatened more bombing in the same breath. He said Iran’s military was finished, then promised strikes on power plants and oil facilities in the coming weeks.

An ER Physician Writes About What Healthcare Should Look Like

March 23, 2026 Dr. James Martin, Substack. , , ,
During my years in the emergency department, I have seen the awful impacts of delayed care. When I practiced at Michael Reese Hospital many years ago, it was distressingly common for me to treat young men with kidney failure. Why? Because their high blood pressure went untreated due to a lack of health coverage to pay for doctor visits and simple medications. They waited until their health issues became unbearable—and much more expensive to treat. We can do so much better than this, and growing numbers of Americans—including 90% of Democrats in a recent Gallup poll—are starting to demand that we replace our “starter home” with a much more durable health care system.

Health Groups Reiterate Warnings About Palantir Involvement In NHS

March 22, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
A recent briefing by health and human rights organizations, including Medact and Just Treatment, raises alarm over spy-technology firm Palantir’s involvement in the British National Health Service (NHS). For years, health workers and patients have been warning against the company gaining ground in healthcare through the introduction of the Federated Data Platform (FDP), which could allow it to coopt sensitive data for non-health-related purposes like policing and immigration enforcement. The report details concerns about Palantir’s involvement in human rights abuses – particularly its cooperation with the Israeli occupation throughout the genocide in Gaza and support of ICE operations in the US.

How Will Corporate Lobbyists Fix Healthcare?

March 22, 2026 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
Corporate media political reporting has always been a clubby endeavor, but a recent reporting experience suggests that the insider culture in Washington, DC, is more insular than ever. It’s often a challenge for independent media to get responses from Washington insider sources—especially on stories critical of powerful actors—but it’s become increasingly difficult even to pose the questions to those sources. Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions, as if the source is handing the truth down from on high.

Millions Of Americans Joining The Ranks Of The Uninsured

March 22, 2026 Julia Conley, Common Dreams. , , ,
About 24.3 million Americans were enrolled in healthcare plans within the Affordable Care Act marketplace last year, but a survey released Thursday by KFF found that about 1 in 10 of those people had no choice but to make a difficult and risky calculation at the end of 2025 when ACA subsidies expired due to Republicans’ refusal to support an extension. According to the research, 9% of people enrolled in plans under the marketplace last year are now uninsured, having dropped their coverage—and costs were a deciding factor for the vast majority of those who left the marketplace.

Doctors, Community Rally Against ICE, Law Enforcement Interference In Patient Care

March 21, 2026 Kate Regan, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Los Angeles, CA – On Sunday, March 15, the People’s Care Collective (PCC), hosted an event on the steps of LA General Medical Center calling attention to the many violations of health and human rights that Los Angeles hospitals have enabled. ICE and local law enforcement have entered health care facilities trampling on the rights of immigrants and their families. Members of Centro CSO, Union del Barrio, Justice LA Coalition, California Immigrant Policy Center, and People’s Care Collective all spoke truth at the steps of power to demand that LA hospitals must stop prioritizing the interests of police, ICE, and insurance companies over protecting patients who seek care, regardless of their immigration status.

Patients Before Profits: 10,000 Teamsters Nurses Authorize Strike

March 20, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , , ,
Detroit—After 16 months of contract negotiations and what workers describe as continued bad-faith tactics by Corewell Health, nearly 10,000 registered nurses (RN) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The nurses, members of Teamsters Local 2024, announced on Tuesday that nearly 90% of voting members supported the strike authorization. They hope to send a clear message to the Michigan healthcare conglomerate that they are prepared to walk off the job if a fair contract isn’t secured. The strike authorization does not mean a walkout is imminent, but it gives the union’s bargaining team the power to call one if negotiations continue to stall, the union said.

United Kingdom Hospitals Urged To Scrap Palantir

March 16, 2026 The Canary. , , , ,
A coalition of leading human rights, health groups and trade unions has urged NHS England to cancel its contract with Palantir based on serious risks to the NHS. Medact has sent its new briefing document, Concerns Regarding Palantir Technologies in NHS Data Systems, to all NHS trust and Integrated Care Board CEOs. It urges them to exercise their local autonomy and not comply with NHS England’s instruction to adopt Palantir’s Federated Data Platform. Assessing the risks posed by the company’s technology to patients and the NHS, the briefing raises alarm over data protection, governance, procurement practices, state surveillance and the wider human rights implications of embedding Palantir’s systems across the health service.

My Rude Health Care Awakening

March 14, 2026 John Katz, Bedlam Farm. , , ,
Living as I do in the country, I sometimes feel somewhat removed from the suffering and chaos so many Americans are feeling. I think of people in trouble as being them, not me. I got my wake-up call this week when my health care plan was suddenly canceled without explanation or warning. I learned this when I went to order regular medication for my diabetes and was told my insurance was suddenly canceled, and I would have to pay $1,000 for it. It wasn’t until I called my very expensive supplement plan that I learned it had been canceled. That was scary enough. For me, a person with diabetes and heart disease, this was the closest thing to a life-or-death issue I’ve experienced since my Open Heart Surgery.

Two Different Models To Erasing Medical Debt

March 2, 2026 Anabel Peterman, Next City. , , ,
When Lucy Becker got the letter, she had a hunch what it was about. Just a couple of weeks prior, she had read an article in CivicLex about her local government’s new initiative to erase $90 million in medical debt for residents. “My mom always keeps a little stack of my mail. The first one on top said [Lexington]-Fayette Urban County Government, and I was like, no way,” says Becker, a 28-year-old musician in Lexington, Kentucky, who has racked up thousands in medical debt due to injuries and severe allergies – debt she thought there would be no escape from.

The Plan To Put Health At The Heart Of The Global Economy

February 22, 2026 WHO-Watch Team, People's Dispatch. , , ,
For decades, finance ministers have viewed health spending the way homeowners view leaky roofs: a necessary nuisance, a cost to be minimized. Hospitals consume budgets. Doctors require salaries. Medicines drain foreign exchange. When economies tighten, health is often among the first cabinet ministers sent home with a smaller envelope. But a quiet revolution might be underway in Geneva, and it threatens to flip this logic on its head. This May, when Member States gather for the 79th World Health Assembly, they will be asked to approve something unprecedented: a formal strategy declaring that health is not a cost at all.

Insurer Agrees To Pay Millions For Failing To Fix Errors

February 20, 2026 Max Blau, Scheer Post. , , , ,
One of New York’s largest health insurers is set to pay a multimillion-dollar fine for failing to fix a series of errors that made it harder for its customers to get mental health care. EmblemHealth this week agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the New York attorney general’s office because of the large number of inaccuracies in its listings of in-network mental health providers, a problem that has persisted for years. The fine is the biggest secured by the state attorney general’s office in its yearslong quest to clamp down on the chronic problem of provider directory errors, also known as ghost networks.
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