health care – People's World

Republicans lose again: Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, 7 to 2

June 17, 2021 By John Wojcik

On a practical level, the ruling means that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

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...