health care – People's World

Does Canada’s vaccine crisis mean public health care is flawed?

April 29, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

Privatization and profiteering leave Canada in a COVID vaccine lurch.

The ‘wellness’ industry is no substitute for real mental health care

April 16, 2021 By Andrew Wright

In a capitalist economy where no “need” or want goes unfulfilled when there is a profit to be made, it’s no surprise that the “wellness” industry has flourished.

Only way to go: Single-payer healthcare gave me back my life

April 14, 2021 By Sara Roos

I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under the U.S. for-profit private insurance formula with Canada’s single-payer paradigm.

Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus

March 10, 2021 By Ariel Bentes

Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...

Thanks to Trump, ‘death panels’ arrive in the City of Angels

January 6, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

Whatever you do, don’t have a heart attack or stroke in L.A.