Health Care in the US

World Socialist Web Site
View In: Health Care in the USAn ER physician said, “The staffing was gutted during COVID, now volumes are back up but they left the skeleton crew to manage this.”

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Health Care in the USFrom each vantage point—as a patient, a provider, and a small business owner—I see everyday how for-profit corporations fail to provide adequate access and coverage for vital health care services.

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Health Care in the USEach day on his commute to the clinic, Dr Crister Brady traverses the rolling farmland of Eastern North Carolina, gliding past the neon-green tobacco fields where many of his patients live and work. Brady’s clinic, the Prospect Hill Community Health Center, is one of ten federally qualified health center...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Health Care in the USResearchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic—and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.

Counter Punch
View In: Health Care in the USDENGUE FEVER We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. More Th...

Popular Resistance
View In: Health Care in the USWith its economic and military might, America is hard to beat on technological wonders, space exploration, and top-notch universities. But when it comes to health, a fundamental prerequisite to a fulfilling life, the US isn’t delivering and hasn’t been for a long time. Researchers now find that the bi...