Healthcare

Hispanic Americans On The Front Lines Of COVID-19

June 10, 2020 Jeremy Robbins, New American Economy. Educate! Education, Food supply, Healthcare, Latinx

Workforce needs are changing and immigrants and Americans of all kinds are critical to the fight, response, and recovery that we face in the coming months. As the country continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Hispanic Americans are playing an important role on the front lines in healthcare, food supply, education, and biomedical industries. There are 2.2 million Hispanic healthcare workers (or 13.0% of the total workforce) nationwide, almost one-third of which are immigrants. Hispanic Americans are even more prominent in another essential sector of the U.S economy: the food supply chain. Hispanic workers are also on the front lines of finding a cure for coronavirus and helping to shore up America’s supply of medicines and medical supplies.

Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group

May 29, 2020 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. Resist! COVID-19, Dark money, Healthcare, Hospitals, National Improved Medicare for All

A progressive organization of 23,000 physicians from across the U.S. demanded Thursday that the American Hospital Association (AHA) divest completely from a dark-money lobbying group that has spent millions combating Medicare for All and instead devote those financial resources to the fight against Covid-19 and to better support for patients and healthcare workers. Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), said in a statement that "the Covid-19 pandemic has stretched hospitals' resources to the limit, and the AHA should not waste precious member hospitals' funds lobbying against universal health coverage" as a member of the Partnership for America's Health Care Future (PFAHCF).

Colombian Social Leaders Protest For Access To Health Care And Food

May 26, 2020 By Telesur English. Resist! Colombia, COVID-19, Food and Agriculture, Healthcare

The difficult situation Colombia is facing due to the pandemic prompted the 48 leaders of Sierra Nevada, in the Santa Marta District, to protest to demand decent health services and food aid. In the middle of the road that communicates with the territory of La Guajira, the demonstrators placed a coffin and performed the dance of the African morticians that have been virtualized in the social networks in recent months. With this representation, the social leaders denounced the abandonment by the District and Departmental Government. Those who become ill for the COVID-19 has a high risk of dying, they denounced.

Prioritizing Health Over Politics In The World

May 21, 2020 José Murat, La Jornada. Educate! COVID-19, Healthcare, International Solidarity, Pandemic

The excessive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is a call to all governments and all political figures, both national and international, to cease politicizing this issue and fighting for bits of power, in order to create a great monolithic force of unified struggle in favor of health, economic recovery, and – something that short-term minds often forget – the viability of our common dwelling-place, which is this planet. President Trump has not taken the preventive measures the international experts advised, losing crucial weeks which could have modified the spiral of the spread of infection. Today, with the pandemic out of control, leading the world in the number of infections and deaths, he attempts to spread the blame among other political figures and other nations, always with his gaze fixed on the next presidential election.

When This War Is Over, Many Of Us Will Leave Medicine

April 26, 2020 Michele Harper, Elemental. Educate! COVID-19, Healthcare, Pandemic, Physicians

I couldn’t see. My face shield was blurred by a streaky haze. I tilted my neck back and forth in an effort to peer beyond it, beneath it, through it, whatever might work. Was it condensation? I started to raise my hands to my face to wipe it away before I remembered and yanked them back down: I cannot touch my face, can’t ever touch my face — neither inside this room nor outside it. As I stood at the head of the patient’s bed in ER Room 3, her nurse, Kate, secured a mask over the patient’s face to deliver additional oxygen. I checked to ensure the oxygen was cranked up to the maximum flow rate while we waited for the respiratory therapist. Even with that increased oxygen, the patient was saturating 85% at best, and her blood pressure was dropping. Ninety minutes earlier, the patient — a woman of 68 years with significant impairment from a stroke — had been fine.

VA Privatization Leaves Veterans Waist Deep In Another Big Muddy

March 31, 2020 Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon, Popular Resistance Educate! Healthcare, Privatization, Veterans Administration

Two years ago, President Trump persuaded a bipartisan coalition in Congress to pass the VA MISSION Act of 2018. It authorized a costly expansion of outsourcing by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides healthcare for nine million former military personnel. Under the guise of giving VA patients more “choice” and speeding up their doctor appointments and hospital treatment, the Trump Administration has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on private sector providers, while refusing to fill an estimated 44,000 to 50,000 vacancies among VA caregivers.

The US Is Not Prepared For Coronavirus; We Need To Take Action

March 1, 2020 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthcare, Medicare for all, Single payer health care

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is in its very early stages in the United States so it is too early to predict its full impacts. The World Health Organization reports that COVID-19 has stricken more than 86,000 people around the world, killing nearly 3,000 and has spread to at least 60 countries. The global march of COVID-19 looks unstoppable. Universal access to healthcare through National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) would make a tremendous difference in both controlling the spread of the virus as well as making sure people receive the treatment they need.

Crowdfunding A ‘Band-Aid’ For Rising Healthcare Costs?

February 27, 2020 By Amanda D'Ambrosio, Medpagetoday.com Educate! Fundraising, Healthcare, Medical

Millions of Americans are contributing to crowdfunding platforms to help pay for rising healthcare expenses, researchers found. One in five people reported contributing to crowdfunding campaigns to cover medical bills and treatments, according to a survey of just over 1,000 people released by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

Democrats Team Up With Trump To Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System

February 15, 2020 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! Democrats, Healthcare, Medicare for all, Trump

On Tuesday, February 4, Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union (SOTU) address. As expected, it was filled with contradictions, falsehoods, and distortions. Among other things, Trump spoke for close to ten minutes about health care in the U.S., claiming that he “will always protect Medicare.” However, neither Trump and the Republicans, nor the Democrats can be trusted when it comes to health care. Just last week, for example, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump suggested he would think about cutting Medicare and Social Security to reduce the federal deficit. The Trump administration also recently announced it would take steps to overhaul Medicaid through a program ironically named “Healthy Adult Opportunity,” allowing states to choose to cut federal government funding they receive at a lump sum or block grant instead of paying a fixed percentage of costs.

We Are The Majority; We Must Turn That Into Power

December 29, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Climate Change, Healthcare, Inequality, militarism, National Improved Medicare for All

Over the last decade, a national consensus has developed for a progressive left agenda on the economy, social services and ending wars but the movement has not built the power to make that a reality. The next decade will be ripe with opportunities for transformational change due to a combination of expanding popular movements as well as escalating crisis situations. Positive change will only occur if these movements evolve into an organized popular movement that truly represents the people's interests against the elites. The movement must protect the planet at this critical time of climate crisis against the profiteering of the planet-plundering capitalist class. We must stand against continued militarism, bloated and wasteful weapons spending, military conflict and regime change imperialism.

Safety Net Hospital Sues Poor Patients For Unpaid Bills

December 25, 2019 Blake Farmer, AP. Educate! Healthcare, Hospitals, Medical Debt, Poverty

Nashville, TN - Nashville General is the city-funded, safety-net hospital. For a patient without insurance, this is supposed to be the best place to go. But its emergency room has been taking more patients to court for unpaid medical bills than any other hospital or practice in town. A WPLN investigation finds the physician staffing firm that runs the ER at Nashville General sued 700 patients in Davidson County this year — roughly the same number as all the other hospitals and physician staffing firms combined. They include uninsured patients like Sonya Johnson, a social worker and single mother from Antioch. Between a nonprofit clinic and General Hospital, Johnson had figured out how to manage her health problems even though she was uninsured until recently.

‘All I Want For Christmas Is A Chance To Live’

December 24, 2019 The Backbone Campaign, Popular Resistance. Create! Corporatism, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Medicare for all

CareFirst has denied cancer patient and Annapolis resident Phil Ateto access to life saving drugs. The Chicago-based medical insurance company is superseding the wishes of Phil’s oncology team. To expose that CareFirst’s choice to put profits first is condemning him to die. On Monday night December 23rd, Phil Ateto went to their Baltimore office to shine a spotlight on their greed and urge them to reverse their “death panel” decision. Phil is a renown artful activist with a group called Backbone Campaign that uses creative means such as light projection to support progressive causes around the country. Phil has tirelessly fought for economic and environmental justice, opposed racism and endless wars that squander lives and resources, and he’s long advocated for universal human rights.

The Killing Fields Of American Health Care

November 24, 2019 David Penner, Dissident Voice. Educate! Big Pharma, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Privatization

American health care is being crushed under the iron heel of a cabal of ruthless and merciless robber barons. Indeed, this primitive and backward system continues to be a source of horrendous suffering, as the health insurance companies, hospital executives, and pharmaceutical companies repeatedly place their insatiable lust for profit over the lives of their fellow Americans. And the health care oligarchs should be proud of what they have achieved: For they have created a health care system that is unrivaled in the industrialized world for its degradation and barbarity. As economic inequality grows in America, so too does inequality of health care. Writing for The Harvard Gazette, David Cecere points out that tens of thousands of Americans die each year due to a lack of health insurance.

Beware Of The Medicare “Disadvantage” Corporate Trap

November 24, 2019 Ralph Nader, Nader.org. Educate! Corporatism, Healthcare, Medicare Advantage

While the Democratic presidential candidates are debating full Medicare for All, giant insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are advertising to the elderly in an attempt to lure them from Traditional Medicare (TM) to the so-called Medicare Advantage (MA) – a corporate plan that UnitedHealthcare promotes to turn a profit at the expense of enrollees. Almost one third of all elderly over 65 are enrolled in these numerous, complex MA policies the government pays so much for monthly. The health insurance industry wants more enrollees as they continue to press Congress for more advantages. Medical Disadvantage would be a more accurate name for the programs, as insurance companies push to corporatize all of Medicare, yet keep the name for the purposes of marketing, deception, and confusion.

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