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Joe Biden keeps lying about Medicare for All and won’t stop anytime soon — he has to, to sell his own Bidencare plan. But Medicare for All will always win on the merits.

In an era of revived US strike activity, what makes the NYNEX dispute most worthy of study is the central issue involved: health care cost shifting.

Insulin is a 100-year-old drug whose wholesale price has tripled in ten years. The reasons why explain everything wrong with America’s broken prescription drug market.

Reader Comments: Trump's July 4th; Concentration Camps; Megan Rapinoe; Democratic Debate; Private Insurance; Karl Marx revisited; Paul Robeson Boulevard named; Queer Liberation; Say No to Rick Snyder; Housing Justice - Affordable for Whom? ...

A Surge in Opposition Lobbying and Advocacy Validates the Credibility of the Medicare for All Movement

Reader Comments: Impeachment; Abortions; Medicare for All; NY Farm Workers Win Right to Organize; Pardoning War Criminals; Bolivia; Germany and BDS; Toronto General Strike; East Side Freedom Library; Reality Winner; Faith Leaders Call To Action; more

"The time is now to create a universal, single-payer, Medicare for All healthcare system in the United States," the economists wrote

If commitment to the public good is the measure of a person, then Max Fine’s life was one well-lived. Max William Fine, the last surviving member of JFK’s Medicare Task Force, spent the better part of a century in pursuit of health care for all.