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Proposed U.S. Census Changes Could Be Catastrophic for Public Health

Nancy Krieger Stat
In 2030, U.S. mortality and morbidity rates will suddenly jump. This will happen not because there is a new pandemic or a sudden rise in cases of existing diseases or injuries, or decline in access to health care. Why? Because the census will change.

‘Those People’

Elizabeth DiNovella Fernández The Progressive
The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.

El-Sayed’s Win in Michigan Is the Most Consequential Election This Year

Dr. James J. Zogby Arab American Institute
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state

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Your Next Nurse May Monitor You From the Philippines

Michael Sainato and Jonathan Feakins rest of world
drawing of the back of a person holding an ipad with an image of a doctor. d a  a U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines.

Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

Kurt Hackbarth Convergence
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a reality
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