Health Care

People vs Profits: China And US Health Care Systems Compared

March 5, 2025 K. J. Noh, The China Report. Resistance Report China, Health Care, Human Rights, New Cold War, Privatization

China's health care system has recently come to public consciousness in the US with “TikTok Refugees” on Red Note comparing healthcare in the two countries. In today's China report, we will explore health care under China's health system and contrast it with that of the US's privatized system. Our understanding of China — and U.S.-China relations — has become a defining feature of all global politics. The China Report is a new show produced in collaboration with Pivot to Peace where every week, journalist Amanda Yee and political analyst KJ Noh will be helping you through all the propaganda with an independent view of the country we are taught to hate, but know so little about.

Oregon Nurses End 46-Day Strike With Pay And Staffing Agreements

March 4, 2025 Kari Thompson, Labor Notes. Resist! Health Care, Nurses, Oregon, Strikes, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

After 46 days on the picket line, nurses walked back into eight Providence hospitals across Oregon in good spirits after ratifying a new contract with their employer February 26. Their effort was bolstered by striking doctors, nurse practitioners, and other hospitalists at Providence St. Vincent’s, and doctors, nurses, and midwives at the Providence Women’s Clinics. The agreements for the 5,000 nurses, who are represented by Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), include improvements in staffing language, pay raises, and pay for missed meals or breaks during a shift. They had rejected a proposal in early February, voting to stay on strike.

Republicans Passed A Budget That Could Result In Cuts To Medicaid

March 2, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Congress, Health Care, Medicaid, Tax cuts for the rich, Trump Administration

On Tuesday, February 25, Republicans in the House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution that would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and implement new tax cuts, costing the government USD 4.1 trillion. These cuts will allow the highest income brackets to pay less in taxes, often contributing far less of their income than those at the lowest income brackets. Tax cuts to the wealthy serve to deprive the government of tax revenue it would have otherwise received from the highest income brackets—which could otherwise go to funding government programs that millions rely on.

Health Workers, Patients, Activists Unite Against Milei’s Healthcare Cuts

March 1, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Argentina, Austerity, Health Care, Healthcare workers, Javier Milei

Over 100 workers’ collectives, health groups, and organizations mobilized across Argentina on Thursday, February 27, in protest against President Javier Milei’s devastating policies. A central march took place in Buenos Aires, denouncing the purposeful underfunding of the health system, deteriorating working conditions, and pressures on public hospitals. Among the demonstrators were health workers, patients, and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. “Health is a fundamental human right, and defending it is the responsibility of all society,” organizers declared ahead of the protest.

CEO Shooting Exposes Injustices That Get Too Little Attention

February 27, 2025 Peter Greenhill, Popular Resistance. Educate! Deaths, Health Care, Health Insurance, United Healthcare

“In a fairer world, Brian Thompson wouldn’t have been murdered. He would already have been put behind bars,” writes foreign policy analyst Sunjeev Bery. And Bery is right. Others have made this point over the last few years, that companies like UnitedHealth are deep cesspools of irredeemable, psychopathic corruption, which in UnitedHealth’s specific case prevents doctors from relieving suffering and saving lives. The shooting of Thompson, their CEO, calls attention to many serious flaws in our society besides the corruption of the profit-obsessed health insurance industry, but let’s focus on just two.

How Healthcare Workers Are Defending Transgender Patients

February 27, 2025 Sarah Lazare, Portside. Resist! Health Care, Healthcare workers, LGBTQ, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration, Youth

In the five years Quinn has worked as a licensed counselor, they have seen the astonishing positive impact that gender-affirming care can have on young patients’ lives. “You talk to these kids, and they can have such complicated experiences with depression and social anxiety, and then you start providing hormones and gender-affirming care, and you see this dramatic difference in how they are able to engage with the world,” explained Quinn, who is going by a pseudonym. “It’s so clear that this is what helps our trans young people to be contributing to society and fully themselves, to meet expected life milestones in ways that are healthy, and connect with community in good ways.”

Veterans Administration Research Funding Slashed

February 26, 2025 Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, The American Prospect. Educate! DOGE, Elon Musk, Health Care, Research, Veterans

In 2024, Congress funded $984 million in VA research, which is a pittance compared to the NIH. But VA researchers operate at 102 research sites and are engaged in 7,300 ongoing projects, while publishing more than 10,000 papers in scientific journals last year. VA research also allies with private-sector researchers and contributes to advances, which helps not only veterans but all Americans. The VA research website appeals to research scientists to join its team. It also asks veterans to volunteer to participate in ongoing clinical studies that could not only help them but new cohorts of former military service members.

Care Workers Get A Seat At The Table

February 24, 2025 Osita Nwanevu, In These Times. Create! Colorado, Health Care, home care, Worker Rights and Jobs

The way she tells it, Sandra Sherwood first stepped into direct care work at 16, when she started caring for her grandfather who had suffered a stroke on his farm. “Mom and I headed over there, and when we got there, granddad couldn’t even make a sentence —it was all garbled, didn’t make any sense of what he was trying to say,” she remembers. “He would be in a wheelchair from then on because it affected one whole half of his body.” “Everything got sold,” she continues. “The property, the chickens, the cows, the pigs — everything got sold. Granddad and grandma ended up moving in with my mom and dad and the family.

Prison Imperialism: A Critical Examination Of Bukele’s US Deal

February 20, 2025 Erica Caines and Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, El Salvador, Health Care, Imperialism

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has recently proposed a controversial agreement with the United States: to house ‘violent’ criminals from the U.S. in his country’s prisons in exchange for financial compensation. This deal, confirmed by Bukele on social media, would see convicted individuals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents, incarcerated in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) , a mega-prison with a capacity for 40,000 inmates. While Bukele frames this as a mutually beneficial arrangement—low-cost for the U.S. but financially significant for El Salvador—the implications of this agreement extend far beyond economics.

Kerala’s Healthcare Revolution: A Triumph Over Corporate Greed

February 18, 2025 Anusha Paul, People's Dispatch. Create! Capitalism, Corporate greed, Health Care, India, Kerala, Privatization, Public ownership

The New Indian Express reported on February 10, 2025, that Kerala has seen the closure of 99 private hospitals since 2011, citing the data from the Kerala Private Hospital Association (KPHA). The association believes this number is a conservative estimate, with the actual figure likely much higher. Hussain Koya Thangal, President of the Kerala Private Hospital Association (KPHA), emphasized that while the cost of treatment has remained relatively stable, the financial burden of maintaining infrastructure and running hospitals has increased significantly.

Attacks On Veterans Administration Federal Workers Hurt Everyone

February 17, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Donald Trump, Federal Workers, Health Care, Veterans Health Administration

The Trump administration is attempting an attack on federal workers at every agency and is allowing Elon Musk access to sensitive data. Federal workers are organizing and fighting back. In less than two months, one federal worker union, AFGE, has gained over 16,000 new members compared to 7,400 new members in all of 2024. Clearing the FOG speaks with Suzanne Gordon of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute about what is at stake and what workers are doing to resist efforts to force them out of their jobs. Gordon also explains why the Veterans Health Administration is a model of health care for the country and the work the VA does to benefit everyone.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Has Been Tortured And Denied Care In Prison

February 17, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Educate! Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Gaza, Health Care, Palestine, Prisons, Torture

After multiple postponements by the Israeli occupation, Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was finally allowed to see a lawyer. The visit confirmed suspicions about the torture he has endured since his arbitrary imprisonment at the end of December 2024. According to reports from Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Dr. Abu Safiya suffered the same methods of torture inflicted by Israeli forces on all Palestinian prisoners, including having his hands tightly shackled and being forced to kneel and sit on gravel for hours.

Strike At Kaiser: They Take Care Of Us, Who Will Take Care Of Them?

February 17, 2025 Cal Winslow, Counter Punch. Resist! California, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

2400 striking behavioral health care workers in Southern California have taken to the streets – literally. On February 8, workers sat down in the middle of Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, blocking traffic in front of Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center. The strikers, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), blocked traffic until a dozen of them, as well as California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez and other supporters, were arrested. The sit-in marked day 110 of the strike. The strikers want parity with Kaiser’s workers in Northern California, workers who won significant gains in a 2022 10-week strike.

University Of California Healthcare, Research Employees Vote To Strike

February 16, 2025 Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times. Resist! California, Health Care, Strikes, Unions, University of California, Worker Rights and Jobs

Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical employees voted to authorize a strike, citing what they described as systemic and ongoing staffing shortages that erode patient care and hurt research operations. The strike authorization comes amid strained negotiations between the university and University Professional and Technical Employees-CWA Local 9119, the union representing nearly 20,000 employees in various research labs and medical facilities across the 10-campus UC system. The unionized workers include nurse case managers, mental health counselors, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, clinical researchers, IT analysts and animal health technicians.

Federal Judge Mandates Return Of Scrubbed Health Resources

February 15, 2025 Zane McNeill, Truthout. Resist! Department of Health, Health Care, Legal System, Trump Administration

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate content that was recently removed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) websites, including LGBTQ-inclusive informational pages. “The judge’s order today is an important victory for doctors, patients, and the public health of the whole country,” Zach Shelley, an attorney with Public Citizen’s Litigation Group and lead counsel on the case, said in a press release. “This order puts a stop, at least temporarily, to the irrational removal of vital health information from public access.”

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