Nevaeh Crain cried in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Vomiting and feverish at her baby shower, the teen went to two different emergency rooms, returning home, worse than before. Pregnant women have become untouchables.
Community groups, fighting since 2012 to reopen 12 mental health clinics shuttered under former Mayor Emmanuel, joined the Chicago mayor’s office to announce the reopening of Roseland Mental Health Center.
Prop 1 Would gut local mental health services and further criminalize the unhoused. The following is an excerpt from a voting guide prepared by Kris Rehl, a writer and organizer with LA Street Care, and was lightly edited for length.
Brittany Watts, 33, was charged with a felony in Ohio after police searched her toilet after she suffered a miscarriage. Doctors are pushing the prosecutor to drop charges.
Twenty nine poor Texas border counties are designated medically underserved. Residents lack access to primary care services, sites, or providers to meet their medical needs. There is an effort to change that.
The pandemic paused redeterminations for Medicaid in March 2020. All states were to resume the eligibility process on April 1. Since then, the State of Mississippi dropped 18,710 children from Medicaid; more are likely to come.
New York City municipal retirees are fighting attempts to strip them of their traditional Medicare benefits and push them into a privatized Medicare Advantage plan — a struggle that mirrors similar battles being fought by retirees in cities across the country against the privatization of traditional Medicare.
Six million people have been stripped of Medicaid coverage in the last several months, creating what one healthcare activist and researcher described as "the largest concentration of health insurance loss in American history." It’s happening in both red and blue states.
Every year, from 30,000 to 60,000 Americans die from lack of healthcare. Affordability is the main reason. Insurance is no guarantee of protection. People avoid seeing a doctor for fear of another bill they can’t afford. Others ration medication to save money. The author discusses a solution: Medicare for All.
Ozempic is for long-term use. After some significant weight loss occurs in about two years, financial assistance will be exhausted, regular insurance won’t cover it due to its cost, and then what? Novo Nordisk, producer of Ozempic, made a gross profit of $22.244B for the 12 months ending March 31, 2023.
In July, advocate Curtis Harris testified before the Chicago Health and Human Relations Committee about the mental health services he needs. He speaks about his lived experience of mental illness on the autism spectrum.
A court-appointed conservator would make financial and health care decisions and control a patient’s medication and treatment. Where is the housing promised by Gov. Newsom when he announced his CARE Court plan?
Protesters at a news conference, many speaking Spanish, called Texas HB 2127 the “law that kills” and that it will leave lawn crews, construction workers and others who labor outdoors at the mercy of their employers. "Believe me, we are dying . . . when they take away our water and our [break] time,” said one worker.
The author is a disabled writer who has a lot to say about disability justice and other things. She says that when others around her don’t wear a mask, they are effectively telling her: Your life is not worth this small inconvenience. I do not care about you. I do not care about other vulnerable people.
The federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying private insurers for Medicare Advantage last year, and endangering the overall financial stability of Medicare.
Fentanyl is the number one killer of 18- to 45-year-olds in this country. Solving the narcotics crisis means not only treatment and prevention, but ensuring all basic needs are met and treating everyone as a valuable, contributing member of society. This is a group effort and where we should put our money and effort.
As emergency measures enacted in 2020 are allowed to expire, millions who had gained access to Medicaid are about to lose it. Millions are also losing access to enhanced food stamp benefits.
Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. said they or a family member delayed medical care last year due to the prohibitively high cost of treatment under the nation's for-profit healthcare model. We need Medicare for All says Sen Bernie Sanders.
Following a massive healthcare protest in Madrid in mid-November, primary-level physicians in will strike against the deterioration of health care on November 21. Health workers are fighting problems burdening primary care services and work overload.
The message must be delivered loudly to the Biden/Harris Administration that disabled people are in jeopardy due to leftover Trump policies and must be addressed.
VICTORY!!! Organizing WORKS! After Erin got a $999 bill for blood work from her insurance provider, she worked with other activists to confront the company, Ambetter, and get the bill reduced to $30. But the fight against a for-profit healthcare system is far from over.
In a major health concern, a new study indicates that kids born near fracking sites are 2-3 Times More Likely to Develop Leukemia. Fracking threatens every person on the planet, directly or indirectly. It should banned entirely.
Women, men and huge numbers of youth are in the streets across the country in uncompromising fight for women’s rights and for government to act in the people’s interests. After centuries of oppression and fighting for equal rights, women are letting the powerful know: “We won’t go back.”
The right wing poured tens of millions of dollars into TV ads attacking progressive candidates and causes. There were also victories won at the ballot box by the movement for justice.
People in the Pilsen community in Chicago protest the closing of the local CVS pharmacy. CVS stores are especially sparse in black, brown, and less affluent neighborhoods.
End game – to incarcerate the unhoused who have experienced the violence of being stigmatized for mental health and substance use, both of which are results of state-inflicted violence on poor communities of color.
Joy Bunton, a public health activist, shares her testimony from a rally held by The People’s Response Network to COVID on April 24, 2022, at a COVID vaccination in Chicago’s Little Village.
It appears that the powerful and well-heeled forces of corporate America are once again targeting the Reverend Edward Pinkney, president of the grassroots Benton Harbor Community Water Council, for the “crime” of standing up for the poor, the elderly, and the children by providing people with safe drinking water.
The road to reach the better world of our imagination may be long. And there are many obstacles in our way. But our north star is clear. It is time for America to guarantee comprehensive, affordable health care to all. The best way to do that is By enacting Medicare for All.
Al was a wonderful friend and comrade who devoted his life to the fight for a society that respects and provides for the rights and well-being of the common working-class people, here and globally.
A bill to guarantee equal universal health care for all Californians regardless of income, em-ployment, or immigration status, by eliminating profiteering in the health care industry did not pass despite tremendous popular support. The fight continues.
Mass struggles by parents, educators, and students for safe schools took center stage in a global fight to stop the pandemic. In Chicago, schools are overcrowded, poorly ventilated, dirty; some even without soap. Students are walking out in protest around the globe.
The system proclaims: “Everybody back to school. Do not let your child fall behind. The schools are safe.”
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A private equity firm wants to build a luxury high-rise building in a low-income community's hospital parking lot, leaving fear that he hospital will be closed.
By Chuck Nelson, interviewed by Sandy Reid
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“We are losing about 4,000 people a year from the impact of mountain top removal coal mining. My daughter, who is only 22, has lost four friends to cancer. Her best friend ...
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Stigma 101: the mark of disgrace that sets a person apart. To comprehend what this looks like to an observer, picture a middle-aged woman shabbily clad who laughs ...
On May 16, arriving in a packed van, a group of women protesters stage a die in upon the steps of the Flint Water plant. The Flint water crisis has generated an ...
My name is Aaron Stinson for all you that don’t know me or may have not seen me. I have the highest lead level recorded in Genesee County. I was tested February 7 ...
“As registered nurses, we are compelled to advocate for all our patients, whether at the bedside or in our neighborhoods and communities. To that end ...
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As Detroit continues to be one of the "poster child" cities of corporate America’s exercise of total control, each day presents another challenge to basic rights. Democracy in Michigan was ...
“Almost one hundred and one years ago, on September the 22nd, 1862, to be exact, a great and noble American, Abraham Lincoln, signed an executive order, which was to take effect ...
On April 11, advocates, health professionals, and community members came out in support of immediately expanding California's health care access under the Affordable Care Act ...
The ability to provide care for the poor has met the reality of the market place. The Medicaid HMO plans are the sole providers for care in Michigan. The guidelines for patients to qualify for Federal Medicaid fee for service payments are arbitrary and extremely difficult to figure out. Some of the Medicaid plans are designed to create ...
Disparity is all around us, pocketed by great bunkers of wealth. Fortified swimming pools and Rolls Royces share the same intersections as shopping cart...
OAKLAND, CA—In May 2012, The U.S. Courts of Women on Poverty, Western Region, held the first United States’ court in Oakland, California. Since then,...
