Rare malignancies often lack targeted, FDA-approved options

Chuck Pennacchio argues Medicare for All requires a state-led movement to overcome corporate and political power.

It started as a simple question. Who are the biggest health care companies in the United States?

When Jesus of Nazareth was challenged to explain what He meant when He used the term ‘neighbor’ to describe whom we should love, He told the parable of man whose acute needs were met by someone who cr...

Recently, a series of seemingly unrelated events within Oregon’s healthcare system, are beginning to reinforce one another, at a time when all financing segments—Medicare, Medicaid and commercial paye...

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Millions of Americans are staying in jobs they’d rather leave because their health insurance is tied to their paycheck.

In 2022 the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) published its Health Care Debt Survey in partnership with National Public Radio.

The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter argues that the U.S. healthcare system is in crisis due to Medicaid cuts and corporate consolidation. She is calling for federal investment to treat healthcare delivery …

This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...

The cost of health insurance at work will rise by 11% next year, substantially off-loaded onto workers. That yields a ten-year rise of 76%. Private insurance is out of control.

Eight years ago this month I published my first book-“The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care”.

This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...

Cristina Alphonso Mateo is a 21 year old native of Spain who is living currently in the United States while she attends college.

This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...

In an op-ed, a former Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief attributes US social and political turmoil to profound income inequality and excess corporate power. He calls our health care “ruinously expen...

The care of the sick and injured is valued by every religion, belief system, or ethical standard that I know of.

Whether it be higher deductibles, increasing premiums or facility fees, our already high healthcare costs continue to rise at an unsustainable rate.

As voters sour on private insurers and health care reform gains political momentum, decades-old warnings about “choice,” “wait times” and “slippery slopes” are resurfacing.

Luke Savage of truthdig.com recently published an article saying what I have been saying for years: there is not a dime’s worth of difference between Ds and Rs when it comes to what they DO about heal...

This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...

This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...

Rising prices for care and managing chronic conditions helped drive up the forecast.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

The Health Insurance Influence Tracker (HIIt) shows insurers are on pace to surpass recent campaign spending, with donations targeting leaders and key lawmakers in both parties.

The house pictured here was where I lived with my family in Reno, NV from 1986 to 1990.