Health Care

Up To 12.4 Million Fewer Americans Enrolled In Public Health Coverage

October 13, 2026 Ruth Milka, Nation of Change. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Health, Uninsured

Between 10.88 million and 12.40 million fewer Americans were enrolled in a public health coverage program as of June 2026 than in January 2025, according to an analysis published October 8 by the independent analyst Charles Gaba. The figure is a net change in enrollment, and Gaba wrote that it “isn’t quite the same thing as counting how many lost coverage.” Gaba reported that Medicaid and CHIP enrollment was about 6.22 million lower. He put the decline in Affordable Care Act exchange enrollment at between 4.57 million and 6.09 million, and Basic Health Plan enrollment at about 272,000 lower.

Psychiatry’s Damage To Self And Culture

October 8, 2026 Bruce E. Levine, Counter Punch. Educate! Big Pharma, Health Care, mental health, Psychiatry

People come to mental health professionals in pain—the pain of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, inattention, and a variety of other mental pains. Psychiatric “treatment” routinely is directed at getting rid of these pains as quickly as possible so that an individual can “function.” In this sense, we should be grateful that psychiatric treatment has been such a failure, a reality that has now even been acknowledged by some in the mainstream media including the New York Times, which concluded in 2021: “Almost every measure of our collective mental health—rates of suicide, anxiety, depression, addiction deaths, psychiatric prescription use—went the wrong direction, even as access to services expanded greatly.”

1,000 Health Care Workers Protest Take-Over Of Their Local

October 6, 2026 Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon, Popular Resistance. Resist! Buffalo, Elections, Health Care, Rank and File, Unions

In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second largest healthcare local, led to a costly and disastrous trusteeship in California. Tens of millions of dollars was squandered on this bitter internal fight. Thousands of SEIU members angrily protested the removal of their elected leaders, who faced trumped up charges and a multi- dollar damage suit. In response to their rights being trampled, rank-and-filers, who only wanted to democratize and reform SEIU, instead created the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), an organizational rival.

How Unions Can Reverse Privatization Of Medicaid

October 3, 2026 Rose Roach, Labor Notes. Strategize! Health Care, Medicaid, Privatization, Unions

In July 2025, President Trump signed HR1 into law, inflicting a trillion dollars of federal cuts on our nation’s lifesaving state-based Medicaid programs. Meanwhile, Congress allowed the tax credits available for people enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchanges to expire. These cuts impact all of us, even those with union-negotiated health care plans. That’s because when emergency rooms and hospitals have more uninsured patients, they provide more uncompensated care. To cover that loss, providers increase prices, and insurance companies in turn increase premiums and out-of-pocket costs for those who are still insured.

New York Hospitals Pay Millions To Stop DOJ Investigation

October 2, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Resist! Department of Justice (DOJ), Health Care, New York City (NYC), Transgender Rights, Trump Administration

Last week, NYU Langone Health (a hospital system affiliated with New York University) reached a settlement with the Department of Justice concerning its provision of gender-affirming care to trans youth. Mount Sinai Health System reached a similar agreement earlier this month. Despite these hospitals’ claims to care for LGBTQ+ patients, they’ve buckled in the face of federal attacks on trans care, prioritizing money over patients even in violation of state human rights laws. Shortly after Trump’s second inauguration, the Trump administration threatened to withhold all federal funding from medical institutions providing youth gender-affirming care.

Southern Reckoning With Medical Myth Of Race As A Diagnostic Tool

September 30, 2026 Denise Powell, Black Agenda Report. Educate! health, Health Care, Racial disparities, Racism

Throughout my early medical education in the Deep South, race was ever-present, shaping the way we were taught to diagnose, treat, and even perceive human beings. It wasn't just a footnote; it was the lead. At medical schools across the country, we were trained to introduce patients starting with their race: "An 82-year-old Black female presents with…" as if the race descriptor was a biological diagnostic tool in itself. Our lecture slides often oversimplified the complexity of human life into neat, racialized boxes. Clinical "risk factors" were organized by skin color, and certain diseases were described as if they only belonged to specific groups.

Immigrants Aren’t Taking Away Our Healthcare, ICE Is

September 25, 2026 Ramya Gosike, In These Times. Educate! Austerity, Budget Cuts, Health Care, ICE, Immigrants

The cost of healthcare just keeps going up — and millions of Americans are set to lose coverage. Under the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” around 17 million people in this country will lose health care thanks to the law’s Medicaid cuts, failure to renew Affordable Care Act subsidies and other changes. Those cuts accelerate after this year’s midterms. Instead, that money is going toward tax cuts for the rich plus record budgets for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Pentagon. Immigrants — including well over 1 million residents who are lawfully present — will be especially hard hit.

October 8: Demonstrate For Medical Care And Freedom For Cilia Flores

September 24, 2026 Sue Harris, Workers World. Resist! Cilia Flores, health, Health Care, Prisoner rights, Solidarity, Venezuela

Cilia Flores, a political leader in Venezuela, has been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn — along with her life partner, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — since the U.S. kidnapped the two and brought them there illegally by force following the U.S. invasion of their country last Jan. 3. Flores’ U.S. military kidnappers severely injured her, and she suffers from serious medical problems and lack of care. Her legal team, attorneys Mark E. Donnelly and Andrés Sánchez, in order to provide Flores with regular medical care, submitted a formal application for house arrest to federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York. Hellerstein called for a hearing on that application for Oct. 8.

Health Workers Demand Action Against Genocide And Militarization

September 21, 2026 People's Health Dispatch, BreakThrough News. Resist! Belgium, Health Care, Health workers, Militarization, Palestine

Health is always a prominent topic at Belgium’s ManiFiesta, a two-day festival organized by the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) in the beginning of September. Discussions range from the organization of health services or workshops led by progressive health organizations like Medics for the People (MPLP-GVHV) and Viva Salud. This September, the program covered local priorities such as health coverage and hospital reform – along with Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s healthcare system and the threat of militarization across Europe.

Improved Medicare For All Will Save Our Rural Hospitals

September 19, 2026 Kay Tillow, Common Dreams. Educate! Health Care, Hospitals, National Improved Medicare for All, rural communities

After a century of providing healthcare to this rural, southeast Michigan community, Sturgis Hospital closed in June with only 70 hours warning. The hospital was not on the at-risk-of-closing list that had been published by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) a year earlier. Over 300 Sturgis Hospital employees are scrambling to find work. Registered nurse Beth Kelley, who had worked at Sturgis for 32 years, described the meeting room as filled with “shock” and “devastation” when management announced that the hospital was closing. The termination of care at Sturgis Hospital overloads the city’s emergency medical services.

VA Amnesia And How To Remedy It?

September 18, 2026 Suzanne Gordon, Substack. Educate! Health Care, Privatization, Veterans, Veterans Health Administration

The other day, I did a presentation with Oscar Arbulu, a Marine veteran and executive director of the organization I co-founded, the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute (VHPI). We spoke about the threats to the VA at a Bay Area Rotary Club and then later at night, we addressed the same topic at the Evergreen Cafe in Berkeley. The Rotary Club members we addressed have a long history of helping veterans. A few veterans were members of the club and some of them used the VA for their healthcare. Other members in the audience included the children of veterans.

All Out For September 19 National Action Day For Medicaid

September 17, 2026 Workers World. Resist! Disability Rights, Health Care, Medicaid, National Week of Action

The Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party fully endorses and promotes the call for protests against the cuts in Medicaid. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army has called demonstrations in 15 states on the weekend of Sept. 18 to 20, with all but two taking place on Sept. 19. These protests come in the wake of massive Medicaid cuts, first when the Biden Administration prematurely announced that the COVID-19 pandemic was over and then when the bigot in chief, President Donald Trump, passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” last year.

Nearly Half Of US Hospitals No Longer Deliver Babies

September 16, 2026 Ruth Milka, Nation of Change. Educate! Births, Health Care, Medicaid, Obstetrics, Rural Hospitals

A University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center report published September 10 found that nearly half of all hospitals in the United States no longer offer obstetric services, after more than 700 hospitals closed their maternity wards between 2010 and 2024. More than 57% of rural hospitals lacked a birthing ward in 2024, according to the report, cited by Healthcare Dive. Closures in 2023 and 2024 were concentrated in Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas and Wisconsin. The number of rural states where at least half of hospitals have closed their obstetric wards rose from 12 to 31 over the period the report covers, while the number of urban states hitting that same threshold rose from two to 15.

25 Years Later, Survivors Still Struggle With Health Impacts Of 9/11

September 11, 2026 Ana Vracar, BreakThrough News. Educate! 9/11, health, Health Care, pollution

On September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers released a dust cloud containing pulverized cement, glass fiber, and asbestos, among other toxins – marking the health of thousands of community members and first responders. Twenty-five years later, New York City has announced it will finally release the full records on the day’s health impact. In a statement released by the city administration, Manhattan Borough officials emphasized the dust and smoke to which first responders were exposed to contained over 2,500 contaminants and faced long-term health consequences, including respiratory illnesses and cancers.

‘No More 24’ Movement Aims To End Long Shifts For Home Care Workers

September 7, 2026 Ella Spitz, Truthout. Resist! Health Care, home care, New York City (NYC), No More 24, Worker Rights and Jobs

When Cai Qiong Liu applied for a visa to come to the U.S., she told officials she was in search of a better life. As soon as she arrived in 2005, Liu’s friend got her a job as a home health aide, which she kept for 18 years. For half of those years, Liu worked four to five consecutive 24-hour shifts a week, providing demanding live-in care for a patient who had suffered a stroke: helping her shower, go to the bathroom, and eat. Liu said she had almost no time to sleep herself, and when she did, it was on an old couch next to her patient’s bed, where she’d have to wake up every two hours to turn the patient over to prevent bedsores.

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