It hasn’t been a banner century for progressives. Not too long I re-read a book that my grandmother, Lucille Milner, wrote in 1954, The Education
Category: Health care
Taxpayer dollars enrich Medicaid cost-cutters
If there were any benefits to the sound and fury accompanying the recent controversy about the debt ceiling crisis, one of them was this:
Old-school organizing: Vermont healthcare campaign’s “secret” weapon
How did Vermont manage to approve universal healthcare, when its governor initially gave it a zero-percent chance of passing? The driving force was old-school
Healthcare history: Fighting infections & resistance to change
Today’s battle between science and willful ignorance is not new. Scientists have always had to struggle against entrenched, non-empirical beliefs, as well as resistance
13 new state laws progressives can applaud
Thanks to some smart and courageous state legislators around the country, the progressive agenda actually inched forward in 2011. Yes, you read that correctly:
Vermont governor signs historic single payer health care law
On May 26, Governor Peter Shumlin (D) signed the legislation passed earlier by the VT House and Senate making Vermont the first state to
The American Health Security Act of 2011
On May 10, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to provide health care for every American through a Medicare-for-all type single-payer system. Represenative Jim
Dignity in Dying gains momentum, acceptance
Many factors in our political and cultural climate have contributed to an increased interest among mainstream Americans for the Dignity in Dying movement. Organizations
$15 pregnancy drug now costs $1,500 per dose.
One might suppose that women who are in danger of delivering premature babies would not be thought of as profit centers by companies who
Struggling with mental illness as services disappear
People who work or volunteer in mental health services in the St. Louis area are plenty worried, with good reason. Because of Missouri’s budget