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Poor People In The Developing World Have A Right To Medicine

People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry. Here is a simple moral...

Bernie Sanders

Healthcare

Medicare Advantage Is Giving Away Billions To Corporate Insurers. It’s Time We Put A Stop To It

Physicians and policymakers are, in different ways, both responsible for the health and well-being of patients. While physicians care for patients to the best of their ability, policymakers ensure that...

Pramila Jayapal

Dr. Diljeet Singh

Healthcare

At A Time Of Inflation, California Should Take A Bold Step To Tame Rising Health Care Costs

The word of the year for 2022 could have been “inflation.” Air travel prices rose nearly 40% from a year earlier. Grocery, housing, energy and other prices are also up....

Michael Lighty

James G. Kahn

Healthcare

Share The Intellectual Property On COVID-19

Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of COVID-19, the global good is not in...

Jeffrey Sachs

Healthcare

White House’s New COVID-19 Strategy Is Madness

As if Donald Trump's irresponsibility was not already a national tragedy, the White House seems now to favor a controversial approach to Covid-19 that threatens to bring nothing less than...

Jeffrey Sachs

Healthcare

A Hopeful Vision Of Service

I have been deeply distressed by the growing political backlash to the restrictions that many states and local governments have put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus....

Dr. James Zogby

Healthcare

Ben Jealous Raises $1M Fund To Support Out-Of-Work Baltimoreans

Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and Maryland gubernatorial candidate, has launched a new relief fund aimed at supporting Baltimore-area workers that are struggling or have lost their jobs amid the...

Morgan Eichensehr

Healthcare

The One Vital Message Of Nearing 100,000 US Deaths

On this somber Memorial Day weekend, America is approaching the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid-19 deaths in a population of 330 million. Six Asia-Pacific nations -- Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan...

Jeffrey Sachs

Healthcare

America’s Corporate Elite Must Place The Health Of Their Workers Before Profit

As America reopens for business, you might expect Jeff Bezos, the richest man in America, and his Amazon corporation, the most profitable corporation in America, to set the standard for how to protect...

Robert Reich

Economy & Economic Justice / Healthcare

Under Trump, American Exceptionalism Means Poverty, Misery And Death

No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25% of the world population, America has...

Robert Reich

Healthcare

What Asian Nations Know About Squashing COVID-19

The number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 now significantly exceeds the total US troop fatalities during the Vietnam War. While the coronavirus continues to ravage the country, with confirmed...

Jeffrey Sachs

Healthcare

Poor People In The Developing World Have A Right To Medicine

Medicare Advantage Is Giving Away Billions To Corporate Insurers. It’s Time We Put A Stop To It

At A Time Of Inflation, California Should Take A Bold Step To Tame Rising Health Care Costs

Share The Intellectual Property On COVID-19

White House’s New COVID-19 Strategy Is Madness

A Hopeful Vision Of Service

Ben Jealous Raises $1M Fund To Support Out-Of-Work Baltimoreans

The One Vital Message Of Nearing 100,000 US Deaths

America’s Corporate Elite Must Place The Health Of Their Workers Before Profit

Under Trump, American Exceptionalism Means Poverty, Misery And Death

What Asian Nations Know About Squashing COVID-19

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