Health Care

Doctors May Have To Strike If Kennedy Doesn’t Resign

September 15, 2025 Richard L. Kravitz, STAT. Strategize! CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Doctors, Health Care, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Strikes

On behalf of the misleadingly named Make America Healthy Again movement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an undisciplined assault on biomedical science and public health: defunding research at the National Institutes of Health, canceling mRNA vaccine studies, purging dedicated government scientists, gutting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and potentially the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and trying to force millions off Medicaid. Kennedy’s recent actions have, in less than a year, substantially degraded the nation’s health security. The brouhaha between Kennedy and (now former) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez is just the latest scene in this unfolding horror flick.

Chicago Hospital’s Closure: A Canary In The Coal Mine For Corporatized Health

September 10, 2025 Anna Romina Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy, Truthout. Educate! Chicago, Corporatism, Health Care, Hospital closures

Predictably, Weiss Memorial Hospital, which has served the diverse and vulnerable populations of the northside Chicago neighborhood of Uptown for decades, closed its doors on August 8, 2025. Weiss Memorial Hospital was the first (and only) community safety-net hospital (a hospital whose stated mission is to serve low-income communities) in this neighborhood. The hospital closed despite impassioned pleas by several residents such as Phong Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee and war veteran who has lived in Uptown and used Weiss Memorial for 50 years. As he told WBEZ, “I am over 80 years old this year. Not just my generation, but generations following myself still rely on this hospital for critical services; [Weiss is] a hospital that allows us to stay in the area and maintain the quality of life that we deserve.”

Medicare Pilot Hands Denials To Private Algorithms

August 31, 2025 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. Educate! Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Medicare, Trump Administration, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Trump administration is launching a pilot program in six states that will allow artificial intelligence to help decide whether elderly Americans can receive certain medical procedures under traditional Medicare. The move has been likened by critics to the creation of “AI death panels,” with experts and advocates warning it risks importing the most unpopular practices of private insurance into the federal health program. The pilot, officially named the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model, is scheduled to begin in January and last six years. It will run in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. Under the program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hire private companies to use A.I. tools to make “prior authorization” decisions—determinations about whether Medicare will pay for particular procedures.

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

August 21, 2025 Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, Scheer Post. Educate! Austerity, Health Care, Public Health, Regulations, Trump Administration

When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to federal health agencies earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was getting rid of excess administrators who were larding the government with bureaucratic bloat. But a groundbreaking data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut deeper than it has acknowledged. Though Kennedy said he would add scientists to the workforce, agencies have lost thousands of them, along with colleagues who those scientists depended on to dispatch checks, fix computers and order lab supplies, enabling them to do their jobs. Done in the name of government efficiency, these reductions have left departments stretching to perform their basic functions, ProPublica found, according to interviews with more than three dozen former and current federal employees.

Beware Of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts

August 20, 2025 F. Douglas Stephenson, Counter Punch. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurers, Medicare Advantage, Profiteers

Gainesville, FL - When it comes to Medicare Advantage, “beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, just like “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”, is a phrase that serves as a cautionary warning against trusting those who may have ulterior motives, particularly when they present seemingly generous health insurance policy offers. Everyone should be aware that not all offers of help or generosity are genuine and that one should critically and thoroughly assess the intentions and specifics behind such programs and policies. The idiom is particularly relevant in situations where aggressive sales agents of health insurance companies may present themselves as allies while harboring hidden marketing and sales agendas for Medicare Advantage.

Halt On Medical Evacuations Is A Death Sentence For Palestinian Children

August 19, 2025 Bilal Irfan and Alyssa Seliga, Mondoweiss. Educate! Children, Gaza, Health Care, Israel, Palestine, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

The U.S. State Department’s decision this weekend to halt all visitor visas for people from Gaza, which includes the medical-humanitarian visas that have brought injured children to American hospitals, will cost Palestinian lives. Officials say this process will be subject to a “full and thorough review”. For a child with infected burns or a deep trauma wound, a pause is a verdict on their life. The freeze did not arise from new intelligence or any novel identification of problems in the temporary visitor visa pathway. It followed a social-media panic with the circulation of mischaracterized videos of injured children arriving under the care of a U.S. nonprofit being labeled as a “security threat,” rhetoric amplified by political allies. The State Department then announced it was stopping visas while it re-examines procedures.

Under Health Communism, Care Is A Human Right

August 19, 2025 J. Patrick Patterson, In These Times. Create! Capitalism, Communism, Health Care, Human Rights

Advocates Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant say health communism isn’t about tweaking the current healthcare system but ending a system in which only those deemed “productive” or “deserving” are allowed to live well. Instead, care should be guaranteed to all — because we exist, not because we work. Under capitalism, care is often tied to productivity. But as Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue in their book, Health Communism, that logic is the problem. Sickness, disability and aging aren’t anomalies; they’re part of being human. A truly humane health system, then, would not treat nonproductivity as a defect. Under the current system, many people — especially the chronically ill, disabled, elderly and institutionalized — are treated as “surplus populations,” expensive burdens to be managed. Health communism sees their liberation as central to the fight for justice.

Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate People With Disabilities

August 18, 2025 Karina Smith, Inequality.org. Educate! Austerity, Disability Rights, Health Care, Medicaid, Trump Administration

Two months ago, Sloan Meek – a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy – took the stage at a rally protesting the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Meek warned how $1 trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts would have life-threatening consequences for people with disabilities. “My whole life – not just my healthcare – is supported by Medicaid. The way I move around in the world. The way I communicate. The people who help me do all the things I want to do in my life,” Meek said. “Without Medicaid support, I will be forced into a nursing home to spend the rest of my life in a hospital bed.” The Republican budget is a “death threat” to people with disabilities, Meek said.

It Will Take National Single Payer To Save Rural Hospitals

August 13, 2025 Kay Tillow, Counter Punch. Create! Austerity, Health Care, Rural Hospitals, Single payer health care

After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation act of 2025 were the immediate cause. Those federal budget cuts have “made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services, many of which have faced significant financial challenges for years,” said Bruntz. The closing of the Curtis Medical Center is just the beginning of the projected damage. About 15 million are expected to lose health care coverage from the Medicaid cuts and other provisions in the budget reconciliation bill passed on July 4.

Universal Health Coverage At A Crossroads

July 28, 2025 David Franco and Indrachapa Ruberu, Peoples Dispatch. Educate! health, Health Care, Privatization, Public ownership, universal healthcare

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) continues to dominate the global health agenda. At this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA78), UHC was again hailed as the cornerstone of resilient health systems. However, while governments reaffirmed their commitments, millions of people continue to face catastrophic health costs, essential services remain out of reach, and primary healthcare systems are stretched beyond breaking. The world is not on track to achieve UHC – and it is not because of a lack of guidance. It’s because of the wrong strategy.

Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Want A Union

July 23, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Organize! Health Care, Medical Residents, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Amid rising labor militancy over the past few years, one group of workers has gone under the radar: medical residents. Also known as resident physicians or housestaff, medical residents are doctors who have finished medical school and are working in hospitals as apprentices on the path to getting independently licensed. They are the patient-facing backbone of hospital operations, working extremely long hours under stressful conditions for mediocre pay. Over the past few years, from California to New England, medical residents have been unionizing and striking by the thousands.

Healthcare Workers Stand Strong 11 Days Into Open-Ended Strike

July 21, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Health workers, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Duluth, MN – On Friday, July 19, striking workers were on the picket line at Essentia Health, Duluth Clinic 2nd Street. Friday marked the 11th day of an open-ended strike by around 700 Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) who formed a union in 2024. The workers are demanding that management sit down with them and negotiate their first union contract, more than a year after they won their union election and formed a union. In February of 2024 the RNs at Essentia Clinics voted to join the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and soon after, in July 2024, the Advanced Practice Providers also joined MNA.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar

July 21, 2025 Veronica Riccobene and Helen Santoro, The Lever. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

The six largest health insurers reported more than $1 trillion in revenue and more than $31 billion in net income last year — and are now pushing to raise Americans’ premiums by as much as 66 percent for some policies, according to recent state regulatory filings. The proposed increases come as insurers dole out billions to further enrich top brass and shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. In all, Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces across the country are projected to see the largest rate hikes in more than five years, driving up out-of-pocket premiums for individual plan policyholders by more than 75 percent on average, according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Mexico Raises The Flag For Health Sovereignty

July 20, 2025 Outra Saude, People's Dispatch. Create! Big Pharma, Claudia Sheinbaum, Health Care, Medicines, Mexico

The first week of July could go down in history as a milestone in Mexico’s pursuit of health sovereignty. At a press conference held on Friday, July 4, President Claudia Sheinbaum, along with Health Secretary David Kershenobich and Alejandro Svarch, head of IMSS-Bienestar (a public agency providing healthcare services), announced an ambitious plan to boost domestic production of medicines and medical supplies, aiming to reduce the country’s reliance on imports. The urgent need for such a policy shift was outlined during the mañanera – the daily press briefing hosted by Sheinbaum and her administration – recordings of which are available online.

Trump Is Trying To Dismantle Public Health

July 17, 2025 Rob Wallace, Joe Sexauer and Rita Valenti, Truthout. Strategize! Federal budget, Health Care, Police State, Public Health, Trump Administration

From the streets to town halls and the courts, it’s a race now. The Trump administration is fighting to remain a step ahead of the growing popular backlash to its draconian cuts to social programs that millions of Americans depend on — at least until the administration operationalizes enough of the police state it’s practicing on immigrants to put down any such objection. Budget proposals and “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) cuts switching out the public commons for a police state make the regime’s objectives clear.

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