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The Path to Medicare for All

Dean Baker CounterPunch
Part of the story of reducing costs is easy. We pay $350 billion a year for the administrative costs of private health insurance. By contrast, the administrative costs of Medicare are just over 1.0 percent of what it pays out to providers.

How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission

Michael Felsen Portside
Hatred of Jews because they are Jews is anathema wherever it rears its ugly head, it should be called out. But anti-Israel statements should not presumptively be equated with antisemitism, nor pro- Israeli statements imply an absence of antisemitism

No, There Isn’t an Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
Trump administration officials including RFK Jr want to add work requirements to Medicaid, arguing that there is a major scourge of able-bodied recipients refusing to get jobs. Their case dramatically overstates how many people in this group are not

This Week in People’s History, May 21–27, 2025

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Act Up demonstrators on the National Institutes of Health campus in May 1990
Act Up Against Bad Science (1990), Don’t Talk, Take Action! (1980), Racism Debunked, But for How Long? (1950), Speak Up, Memory! (2025), Protest and Serve (2020), National Institute of Health, R.I.P? (1930), Really Making Peru Great Again (1975)