Judith Solomon and Matt Broaddus
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Misleading claims about who is enrolled in the Medicaid expansion should not deter additional states from extending these benefits to the millions of people who continue to be left out.
Seniors should celebrate Medicare’s 54th birthday by rejecting the fear-based propaganda, and enthusiastically embracing Medicare for All. Under Medicare for All, seniors would pay less out of their pockets — and they would receive more.
How might collective bargaining change if health care wasn't tethered to work? Democratic presidential candidates aren’t in agreement over how to solve the current health care crisis, where 1 in 2 sick Americans cannot afford health care.
Hotel strikes in 2018 resulted in new agreements to increase wages and pensions. Management attempts to increase workloads remains a major concern for workers as does maintaining health insurance during seasonal layoffs.
Inside stores, shortages are evident. Meat and produce are rapidly disappearing from shelves, and aren’t being replaced because truck drivers in the Teamsters union are refusing to cross the picket line.
Robert Pollin,Jeannette Wicks-Lim,Jared Sharpe
Common Dreams
Comprehensive plan is estimated to reduce U.S. health consumption expenditures by nearly 10 percent, while providing decent health care coverage to all Americans
Democratic candidates have exposed the outlandish lies by Trump and numerous Republicans pretending to defend the sick. But the inconvenient truth is that even with the ACA insurance companies have found numerous ways to skirt the law.
For the first time in recent memory workers in multiple Chicago hotels have walked off the job at the same time, and it appears to have taken management by surprise.
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