In Oregon, activists are rejuvenating a campaign to win a health care system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.
The ability of NYSNA nurses to chart their own course, ensuring patient care and bedside nursing are priorities, is a reminder that unions can change based on member involvement.
The same free-market politics that opposes even the conservative compromise of the Affordable Care Act lies behind policy shifts that have greatly increased inequality.
Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein, Dissent Magazine. March 19, 2012.
Faced with cuts in programs and stripped of their bargaining rights, home care workers are trying to maintain the activist vigor of their scrappy past.
Republicans would have had no opportunity to raise this issue if America had a single-payer healthcare system instead of the current employer-based structure.
New regulations would give nearly 2 million home-care workers, most of whom are women and many women of color, wage and hour protections for the first time.
Movements are discovering the connection between health and activism through medical workers joining the front lines to deploy their skills and their conviction.
Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. November 23, 2011.
As early as this weekend, Obama may cave to demands by Catholic bishops that they not be required to cover contraception under health-care plans for women employees.
130 protesters arrested as part of Occupy Chicago, some for the second time, said they were denied phone calls and sleep as Chicago police escalate the fight.
Free health care, a sanitation team, a public library, solar power, and free childcare are just a few of the services the Occupy Wall Street protesters are providing.
Yvonne Yen Liu, Colorlines.com. September 25, 2011.
Cutting Medicare and Medicaid are the new favorite solution for Democrats and Republicans--but actually, investing in those programs would do more for jobs.
Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and other Republican governors are handing over taxpayer dollars to private companies to provide health care--and make profits.
