health care

Public option for health care back on the table

January 17, 2013 By John Wojcik

A group of Democratic lawmakers moved quickly yesterday and filed a bill that would give the people of the nation the right to choose a publicly run health insurance plan.

Today in labor history: 20,000 GE workers strike over health care

January 14, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On Jan. 14, 2003, nearly 20,000 General Electric workers went out on strike at 48 plants in 33 states.

Venezuelan right wing creates false crisis on Chavez inauguration

January 8, 2013 By Emile Schepers

The stakes in this situation are high not only for Venezuela but for the entire Latin American and Caribbean area.

President Chavez of Venezuela to Cuba for cancer treatment

December 11, 2012 By Emile Schepers

For the fourth time in a year and a half, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for Cuba on Sunday for cancer treatment.

Nurses strike, again, for patient safety and nursing standards

November 20, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

One-day strikes affected seven Summit hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, involving up to 3,200 nurses and several hundred medical technicians.