Portside

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

Only Medicare has the proven ability to control costs.

“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”

"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."

The crowning achievement of this multiracial and cross-class health activism was codification of the right to health in the 1940 Constitution. “Good health care...revolutionary medicine is far more cost effective than corporate-controlled medicine."

Do we want to provide care for the most vulnerable members of our society, or do we want this to just be a business where real estate owners are making money, and we don’t really care...

Dr. Linda Murray, former chief medical officer for Cook County Department of Public Health, was a doctor serving public housing residents when one of the deadliest heat waves in U.S. history hit Chicago. 25 years later, she sees the same root causes.

"Years of potential life lost" is the most sobering and sad Covid-19 statistic I've seen. There are so many reasons to not be numb to the coronavirus pandemic. As we see case counts rising, we can't stay complacent. There's so much more left to lose

The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block.

It is the cardinal sin of the American health system in a single surgery: save on preventive care, pay big on the backend, and let the chronically sick and underprivileged feel the extreme consequences.