Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. May 17, 2008. Easing pain is arguably as important as saving a life. But far too many U.S. physicians focus only on the latter.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 9, 2008. Elizabeth Edwards testified in the Senate yesterday about the American health care system.
Bill Scher, TomPaine.com AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 4, 2008. McCain wants to put even more health care costs on the shoulders of working families. The question is how.
Bernie Horn, TomPaine.com. April 30, 2008. The health care debate is not about right versus left. It's about McCain's radical scheme to dump our employer-provided health coverage into a ditch.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 28, 2008. Health industry lobbyists are raking in windfall profits this year, and we're all getting screwed.
Mariana Ruiz Firmat, make/shift. April 28, 2008. If we want to foster healthy communities, we need to make connections between reproductive health, environmental toxins, and the food we eat.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 24, 2008. It's time for the candidates to stop dancing around real health-care reform and get behind a single-payer system.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. April 23, 2008. Many workers believe that if they keep their job, their insurance is safe. That may have been true in the '90s, but not now, not even for top execs.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. April 10, 2008. Facts and myths about how the United States' shrinking work force can pay for the health needs of its retirees.
Ketaki Gokhale, New America Media. April 8, 2008. High numbers of the working poor in this community don't qualify for public assistance, yet can't afford private insurance.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. April 6, 2008. Mr. McCain's approach to health care is based on the fantasy that the magic of the marketplace can produce cheap health care for everyone.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 3, 2008. The corporation was under no obligation whatsoever to sue the Shanks. It was a discretionary choice.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 2, 2008. Keith Olbermann says he will keep reminding people of “what they’re supporting when they go to Wal-Mart.
Elizabeth Edwards, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 1, 2008. Here are some questions Sen. McCain does not ask but, as a supposedly plain-spoken politician, he might want to answer.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Election 2008. March 31, 2008. Clinton's campaign is trying to keep its financial operation afloat as it hits the next slew of primaries, but this is bad PR any way you look at it.
Larry Adelman, Unnatural Causes AlterNet: Video. March 27, 2008. A new documentary series hopes to show how economic justice, racial equality and caring communities may be the best medicines of all.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 26, 2008. The story of the Shank family is heartbreaking in the sense that it could happen to anyone.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. March 20, 2008. The simple transition of a patient from one caretaker to another can result in numerous mistakes and, ultimately, patient harm.
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