health care

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/23/2023
  

  The PR War for Cancer Awareness has Reduced the Stigma, but not the Cost, of Illness

  Elaine Schattner examines the work of activists who brought cancer diagnoses into the light and demanded that resources be invested in treating patients. It's not clear what can be done to help a typical American affort those treatments, though. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/25/2022
  

  God Save Us From the Economists

  by Timothy Noah

  Actress Jayne Mansfield was killed in a 1967 traffic accident; a truck trailer safety regulation review prompted in part by her highly public demise was finally implemented in 1996, after nearly 9,000 people were killed in similar crashes. Why? Blame a bipartisan faith in economists as policymakers. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/8/2022
  

  New Documentary: Historical Roots of Racial Disparities in American Health Care

  "Racism operates in really any environment, and shows up in the hospital. Health care is not immune from the injustices that pervade society more broadly, including racism."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  2/14/2022
  

  Selling Hope

  by Wendy A. Woloson

  After a cancer diagnosis, the author still couldn't escape a world of consumerism that relentlessly commodifies even the worst experiences.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/12/2021
  

  When the Young Lords Took Over a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care

  by Emma Francis-Snyder

  "The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/8/2021
  

  Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

  by Celeste Henery

  Oral histories from Black health care practitioners shed important light on how they and the communities they served understood health and treatment, and speak to the ongoing problems Black Americans report in accessing good and compassionate care. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/14/2021
  

  Our Insurance Dystopia

  by Caley Horan

  America's health insurance morass is a result of the replacement of the ideal of mutual, universal risk sharing with the privatization of risk in pursuit of profit. 

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• SOURCE: Asia Times
  5/4/2021
  

  A DARPA for Health? Think Again, President Biden

  by Victoria A. Harden

  The founder of the Office of NIH History says that the Biden Administration is right to urge a national commitment to health-related research, but shouldn't bother with creating a special task-focused agency; the best support is more and more secure funding for basic research.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/8/2021
  

  The Health Care Crucible (Review)

  Gabriel Winant's "The Next Shift" examines the shift from industrial manufacturing toward care work as the economic base of the Rust Belt, where profit comes from treating the old, sick, and poor of one generation of the working class through the labor of the next generation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2021
  

  Manufacturing Isn’t Coming Back. Let’s Improve These Jobs Instead

  by Gabriel Winant

  Instead of focusing on infrastructure projects, the federal government should act to improve the pay and working conditions of medical and care workers, who have been a growing share of the American working class for decades. This would make poorer and older Americans healthier as well. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/8/2020
  

  'Our Malady': Historian Timothy Snyder On America's Health Care Problem (Audio)

  The historian took an unexpected turn into researching the health system when he got suddenly, seriously ill in December 2019. He argues that the for-profit healthcare system exposes a dire conflict between capitalism and liberty.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  COVID-19 has Exposed the Flaws in how We Finance Hospitals

  by Barbara Bridgman Perkins

  The financial sector has hijacked health care, making Americans vulnerable to pandemics. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  Economic Reforms Might Be The Best Health-Care Reforms

  by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Susan M. Reverby

  Only by understanding and confronting this entangled web of racism and public health can we actually solve a problem that has been centuries in the making.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Pandemic Exposed a Major Flaw in America’s Health Care System

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  The crisis may create an opportunity to do what once seemed impossible: deliver universal healthcare and end the employer-based insurance system.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/2020
  

  Front-Line Workers in the Covid-19 Fight Need Unions

  by William P. Jones

  Without strengthening labor laws, and extending them to all sectors, we cannot ensure workers have the power to protect their own health and safety on the job and the health and safety of our communities.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/10/2020
  

  Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Roads to Universal Health Care

  by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff

  Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.

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• 8/25/19
  

  A History of the Fight for Universal Healthcare and the Cry of Socialism

  by Donne Levy

  This drama in which Democrats move toward universal healthcare and Republicans cry socialism has happened before, and it is instructive to analyze this history with a view toward what can be expected in the future. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  Health Care for All – A Cautionary Tale from the 1970s

  by Richard Moe

  If the ultimate goal is to expand affordable health care to every American, Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy offer important lessons.

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• SOURCE: Dawson Creek Mirror
  11-8-17
  

  Canadians choosing health care over all else, says health care historian

  Vancouver Island University’s Cheryl Krasnick Warsh says it’s more popular than the queen.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-19-17
  

  How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?

  by Christy Ford Chapin

  The problem with American health care is not the care. It’s the insurance.