Jason Leopold, Consortium News. July 6, 2008. A new report urges policymakers to find a solution to the health-care crisis; long-term fiscal problems may develop if the issue is not addressed.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. June 19, 2008. The old claims of a justified war in Iraq have melted away. So have promises of a humane society back at home.
Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Immigration. May 19, 2008. An immigrant women from Honduras - with legal documentation - faces deportation because her insurance does not cover long-term care.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 6, 2008. Unlike Clinton or Obama, Dr. Rocky White, an Evangelical from a conservative background, is promoting a single-payer health care system.
Ezra Klein, The American Prospect. March 18, 2008. Sens. Wyden and Bennett are starting to build a bipartisan consensus around health care -- despite their opposing political views.
Annabelle Gurwitch, TheNation.com. October 19, 2007. One woman argues that she is a lazy, degenerate, breast-bearing freeloader, and her child -- not Graeme Frost -- should be ridiculed by the right-wing media over his kidney condition. Seriously.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. September 24, 2007. After facing down the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the U.S.S.R., Saddam Hussein, the United States has met an enemy it dares not confront -- the American private health insurance industry.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. September 4, 2007. Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.
Cindy Zeldin, TomPaine.com. October 17, 2006. The mega-store is sinking to a new low by further limiting health insurance options for its lowest-paid employees.