If you weren't already nuts, you will be after working a few nights in the ICU.
HealthCare
Despite the lack of universal healthcare coverage in the US, the country spends significantly more on healthcare related costs than comparable countries.
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The Economic Policy Institute details how "abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation."
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Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.
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Left-wing president shows what can happen with political will to do what’s right for ordinary people New Brazilian president Lula da Silva is reversing the cuts to Brazil’s health programme imposed by right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro. Da Silva, who won the presidential election at the end of October despite extensive right-wing attempts to rig […]
For years, in addition to writing about it numerous times for RD, I’ve included a...
This sixteen-part series, The Souls of the People, will explore these issues and the ideas and economics behind them. The values, origins, economics and philosophy behind the call to "cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" (Norquist). The creation of think tanks specifically to provide a pseudo-intellectual foundation for inequality, and that along with media convince the middle class to vote against their own interests. The rise, reasons for, and effect of beliefs that markets without law allow for full employment and that wage laws cause unemployment. That competition alone can bring about good working conditions. The rejection of progressive taxes, and of the right to avail ourselves of the power and resources of the country through organizing public goods. And most importantly, how all of these are maintained by laws that impoverish the powerless and enrich the powerful, and thus are self-perpetuating.