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The Biden administration hasn’t stopped trying to privatize Medicare. But a pushback is gaining steam.

The CDC is beholden to corporations and has lost our trust. We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid

In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get ready

Medicare Advantage was supposed to be a money-saver. It’s now become a costly, unaccountable cash cow for private insurance companies that is swallowing traditional Medicare.

There is “little evidence” that higher payments to Medicare Advantage are justified because their enrollees are sicker than the average senior.

World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’ The climate crisis threatens to undo the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction...

Our analysis provides striking evidence of the failure of leading medical journals to publish extant scientific research on racism and health.

Democrats want to pay billions to put Americans on expensive corporate health insurance plans rather than expand Medicare or create a public option. It’s a gift to a criminal private insurance industry that needs to be completely abolished.

Life should come before profit, human rights before property rights.

Only Medicare has the proven ability to control costs.