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On AlterNet: healthcare

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "healthcare"

Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves

Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves

Linda Gordon, The Nation. June 3, 2008.
As the feminist health manual goes global, translating it requires more than just changing the language.

Workers Sticking Together to Challenge Corporate Power

Dave Johnson, Huffington Post. May 12, 2008.
Security guards at Kaiser are supposed to be provided with health care after working for 90 days, but it turns out that many are not.

Straight Talk?  Not on Health Care

Straight Talk? Not on Health Care

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 4, 2008.
John McCain can't stop lying about his opponents' health care plans.

Americans Have a God-Given Right to Take This Job and Shove It! [VIDEO]

Americans Have a God-Given Right to Take This Job and Shove It! [VIDEO]

Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. April 19, 2008.
Ron Wyden's on-key.

In Med Schools, the Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom

In Med Schools, the Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom

Louisa Pyle, RH Reality Check. April 15, 2008.
In a sane world, abortion would be included in medical school curriculum where appropriate, just like any other common, safe procedure.

Beyond Abortion: Medical Injustice Should Be Our Focus

Beyond Abortion: Medical Injustice Should Be Our Focus

Jalan Washington, RH Reality Check. April 14, 2008.
Pro-choice doctors must address the socioeconomic realities patients face, and respond to the full range of individuals' reproductive health needs.

Rethinking the AIDS Emergency and the U.S. Response

Rethinking the AIDS Emergency and the U.S. Response

Beth Fredrick, AlterNet. April 7, 2008.
The President's AIDS policy may be well-intentioned, but it fails to provide comprehensive and compassionate care for the people who need it.

Using

Using "Iron My Shirt" to Talk About the Issues

Lynn M. Paltrow, AlterNet. April 2, 2008.
Jeers about domestic chores are more than just sexism -- they could be opportunities to address domestic policies.

Making Connections Between Feminism and Prison Abolitionism

Making Connections Between Feminism and Prison Abolitionism

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The Nation. March 29, 2008.
The high STI rates among incarcerated people illustrate how social justice movements overlap. Now it's time for activists to talk to each other.

Knocked Up? Your Job Might Be on the Line

Knocked Up? Your Job Might Be on the Line

Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 28, 2008.
The rise in pregnancy discrimination is further evidence of how little our society values women as equal citizens.

Bush Official: Doctor's Right to Withold Info Greater Than Patient's Right to Receive It

Bush Official: Doctor's Right to Withold Info Greater Than Patient's Right to Receive It

Cara Kulwicki, The Curvature AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 27, 2008.
The Bush Administration has already said that doctors should be able to deny medical care to women. Now they want to deny information, too.

When It Comes to Hysterectomy, Most Women Don't Have Reproductive Choice

When It Comes to Hysterectomy, Most Women Don't Have Reproductive Choice

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check. March 19, 2008.
As many as two-thirds of hysterectomies may be unnecessary because un- and under-insured women continue to lack a full range of health care options.

10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted

10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted

Sara Robinson, TomPaine.com. February 5, 2008.
We must get past a pile of disinformation.

Digging In the Right Place

Digging In the Right Place

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. January 18, 2008.
There is a simple fix for our ailing healthcare system, and it has the right-wing in a panic.

Edwards Only Top Dem to Take on Wall Street

Edwards Only Top Dem to Take on Wall Street

Dean Baker, Comment Is Free. December 26, 2007.
When it comes to economic policy, only one of the Democratic frontrunners seems set to challenge corporate power.

Health Care: California's Moment and a National Movement

Health Care: California's Moment and a National Movement

Dennis Rivera, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 18, 2007.
Legislation passed in California yesterday shows the potential for real healthcare reform is alive and well.

Why Won't the Candidates Talk About Americans' Economic Pain?

Why Won't the Candidates Talk About Americans' Economic Pain?

Paul Waldman, The American Prospect. December 12, 2007.
The middle-class is paying the price for our growth-at-any-cost business culture.

The American Dream Is Alive and Well ... in Finland!

The American Dream Is Alive and Well ... in Finland!

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 11, 2007.
It's harder to move up the economic ladder in the United States than in other wealthy countries. What happened to the American dream?

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 26, 2007.
The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.

That’ll Cost a Kidney: How a Little-Noticed Vote in Congress Could Raise Workers’ Healthcare Costs Even Higher

That’ll Cost a Kidney: How a Little-Noticed Vote in Congress Could Raise Workers’ Healthcare Costs Even Higher

Juan Basile, AlterNet. November 17, 2007.
Congress is on the verge of letting corporate lobbyists change how a critical treatment is delivered, reducing access to affordable care just so two corporations can boost their bottom line.

Readers Write: John Edwards' Plan to Get Serious About Healthcare

Readers Write: John Edwards' Plan to Get Serious About Healthcare

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. November 17, 2007.
AlterNet readers had much to say about Edwards' threat to strip health coverage from Congress if its members didn't pass his plan.

Edwards: If Members of Congress Won't Give Americans a Healthcare Plan, I'll Take Away Theirs

Edwards: If Members of Congress Won't Give Americans a Healthcare Plan, I'll Take Away Theirs

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 15, 2007.
His campaign insists that it's not just symbolic.

U.S. Falls to No. 15 in Average Worker Income

U.S. Falls to No. 15 in Average Worker Income

David Francis, Christian Science Monitor. November 13, 2007.
That ranking would surprise most Americans, who likely consider their nation the most prosperous in the world.

Can't Afford That Operation? Fly to Another Country

Can't Afford That Operation? Fly to Another Country

Dean Baker, Comment Is Free. November 12, 2007.
The cost of medical care in the US is becoming so ridiculous it invites an absurd solution: fly Americans to hospitals overseas.

Dems Criticize Healthcare Industry; Industry Showers Dems with Cash

Dems Criticize Healthcare Industry; Industry Showers Dems with Cash

Raymond Hernandez, Robert Pear, The New York Times. October 29, 2007.
Big Business watches the Republican coalition crack up; shops for Dems.