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Volume 29, Number 132 — Tuesday, May 14, 2024

WebVolume 29, Number 132 — Tuesday, May 14, 2024

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US Nurses Union Demands Medicare for All

WebBella DeVaan says universal healthcare would close crucial gaps in a wasteful, privatized model that left the American healthcare system ill-prepared for the …

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Private Equity Is Destroying US Health Care

WebPrivate Equity Is Destroying US Health Care. December 1, 2022. From driving medical facilities out of business to charging predatory interest rates on patient billing …

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15 Million in US Losing Public Health Benefits

WebYoung people and people of color will be disproportionately impacted — 5.3 million children and 4.7 million young adults aged 18-34 will lose their public healthcare …

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US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service

WebIn the process, UnitedHealth’s influence has extended across the board. Take commissioning of NHS patient care, for example. Under the terms of the 2012 Health …

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Retirees Fighting Own Unions’ Health Cuts

WebJenny Brown reports on the vote by New York City's Municipal Labor Committee to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country and …

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WHO Warns of ‘Bloodbath’ in Rafah

WebA new wave of displacement would exacerbate overcrowding, further limiting access to food, water, health and sanitation services, leading to increased disease …

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Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage

WebMedicare Advantage is a money-making scam, says Wendell Potter, a former health-care executive who helped develop PR and marketing schemes to sell these …

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Corporate Takeover of NHS: The Demise of British Primary Care

WebBritain’s primary care system has been the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS). Current spending on primary care is less than a 10th of the total cost of …

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Doctors in Gaza Respond

WebThe medical providers called on the WHO and rights groups to hold accountable the group of Israeli physicians who betrayed their profession by endorsing …

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The Real Gaza Death Toll

WebRalph Nader says it matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Gaza Health Ministry’s undercount. …

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How Big Pharma Pursues 'Killer Profits' at Americans' Expense

WebThe whole health care system, top to bottom, must be nationalized. Profit and health care do not, in fact cannot mix. Anything less than this will not solve our …

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Why Julian Assange, a Non-US Citizen, Operating Outside the US, …

WebPolish security agents had burst into a bedroom in 1959 to photograph Scarbeck in bed with a woman who was not his wife. Showing him the photos, the Polish …

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WHO: Disease Could Be Bigger Killer Than Bombs in Gaza

WebThe World Health Organization (WHO) has now recorded more than 44,000 cases of diarrhea and 70,000 acute respiratory infections in Gaza since Israel began its …

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WATCH: Saving Julian Assange

WebAn Australian parliamentary group has written to the U.K. home secretary calling for a probe into the risks to Assange’s health should he be extradited.

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Israel Could Kill 85,000 More Gazans in 6 Months

WebBy Julia Conley. Common Dreams. S cientists have warned an escalation in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza was projected to kill 85,000 Palestinians in the next six …

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Stephen Cohen Has Died; Remember His Urgent Warnings Against …

WebBy Caitlin Johnstone. CaitlinJohnstone.com. Stephen F Cohen, the renowned American scholar on Russia and leading authority on US-Russian relations, …

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Bill Introduced in US Congress to Help Agent Orange

WebThus, on May 25, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California) introduced H.R. 3518, the Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2021, in the House of Representatives. The …

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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Assange & the Sickness of US Prisons

WebSpeaking from his own experience as an imprisoned whistleblower, Kiriakou reflects on the grim medical outlook for the WikiLeaks publisher if he gets extradited. By …

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