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Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, corporations, health insurance, Living Wage / By max cyril

Millions of full-time, adult workers in the United States?—?many of them employed by Walmart, McDonald’s and other highly profitable corporations?—?are paid wages so low they’re forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. That is the key finding of a newly released report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I?Vt.), the …

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Let’s set the record straight on unions this Labor Day

Leave a Comment / health insurance, Union Membership, union mobilizing, unions / By max cyril

If your stereotype of a union worker is a white guy in a hard hat, let’s take this Labor Day to change that in a big way. Here’s the reality: 46.2% of union workers are women, and 36.1% are people of color. Black workers are the most likely to be represented by a union. More than half of …

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On Medicare and Medicaid’s 55th Birthday, Let’s Expand Benefits—Not Cut Them

Leave a Comment / health insurance / By max cyril

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. This crowning achievement was both the culmination of a decades-long effort to attain guaranteed universal health insurance and the first step in the quest for Medicare for All. In the 55 years since the legislation was signed into law, both programs have proven …

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Democrats in Congress Should Rethink a Health Insurance Deal That Would Be Terrible for Many Americans

Leave a Comment / health care, health insurance, healthcare / By max cyril

Congress must act decisively to ensure Americans get needed health care in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, both to promote public health and to reduce viral spread. But one Democratic proposal is a massive giveaway to private insurance companies with few redeeming qualities. This proposal would require the federal government to cover the full cost of …

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Coronavirus Shows Capitalism Is a Razor’s Edge

2 Comments / health care, health insurance, healthcare / By max cyril

My best friend works as a standardized patient, which means she is a practice patient for medical schools to train and test students. One day she’ll play an older woman with a pulmonary embolism, her face stricken with worry, the next someone with depression, limp and listless. Each workday medical students fumble at her bedside, …

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Medicare for All’s jobs problem

Leave a Comment / health insurance, healthcare / By max cyril

Deanna Mazur, the daughter of a retired steel mill worker who works as a medical billing manager, finds some things to like about the “Medicare for All” policy that she’s been hearing politicians talk about. She likes the notion that all Americans would have health insurance. And it would simplify her own job quite a …

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Trump’s new rule allows employers to drop birth control coverage with no oversight

Leave a Comment / health care, health insurance / By max cyril

New contraception rules outlined by the Trump administration will allow employers to stop covering birth control — with zero government oversight. The administration announced on Friday that, effective immediately, it was rolling back federal requirements introduced under the Obama administration which require employers to include birth control in their health insurance plans. Under the new …

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Foundry Workers Strike to Save Their Healthcare

Leave a Comment / health insurance, unions / By max cyril

Berkeley, Calif.—A strike of more than 450 workers in one of the largest foundries on the west coast brought production to a halt Sunday night, at Pacific Steel Castings. The work stoppage, which began at midnight, has continued with round-the-clock picketing at the factory gates in West Berkeley. Local 164B of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, …

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NFL Lockout Could Cost $160 Million, 115,000 Jobs

Leave a Comment / health insurance, NFL, unions / By max cyril

If the National Football League owners lock out the players next season, not only will millions of fans not have games to watch on Sunday afternoon, but more than 115,000 jobs could be lost, according to a new study. The 32 NFL teams employ on average 3,739 people each, including players, concession workers and office …

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If health care shouldn’t be mandatory, let’s go after car insurance next