On AlterNet: heath care

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "heath care"

Conservatives Exploiting Health Care to Deprive Poor Women of Access to Abortion

Michelle Chen, ColorLines. July 21, 2010.

2010 has been a big year for health care reform, but the families on whose backs those legislative victories were won have little to celebrate.

"This Is What Change Looks Like": Congress Passes Health-Care Reform

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. March 21, 2010.

Once Rep. Bart Stupak announced he would vote for the Senate version of the health-care reform bill that came before the House, Democrats had their votes.

[VIDEO] Money-Driven Medicine: Wall Street Wins; You Lose

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. August 31, 2009.

This documentary, aired by Bill Moyers Journal, examines our health-care system through the lens of profit-taking. Wall Street wins; you lose.

Living Standards Under Stress

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2008.

A new report reveals that, by any indicator, standards of living are in decline.

John Edwards Steps into Big Shoes in Crusade Against Poverty

Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. August 17, 2007.

Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King loudly voiced the connection between the Vietnam War and poverty at home. Is John Edwards the next to take up their work?