health care
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Heroic New Orleans doctor cleared
The New Orleans district attorney dropped all charges against a doctor accused of murdering four patients in the disastrous days…
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‘Sicko’ exposes the need for universal health care
All private health insurance companies must be abolished. Not reformed, reconstituted or regulated—abolished. We should have guaranteed universal health care…
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The criminalization of mental illness under capitalism
The writer is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and research coordinator of a free-standing psychiatric clinic.…
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On AIDS, Bush and G-8 talk much, deliver little
Once again, George W. Bush and the Group of Eight have unveiled proposals to fund the global fight against AIDS.…
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Healthcare aides denied minimum wage, overtime
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that healthcare aides around the country are not entitled to minimum wage even if hired…
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Infant death rate jumps in U.S. South
Infant death rates have skyrocketed in the South in recent years. This terrible result can be traced to cuts in…
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A powerful indictment of racism in the name of medicine Book review: ‘Medical Apartheid’
“It was cheaper to use N——-s than cats.” —Harry Bailey, an Australian psychiatrist, describing experiments performed on Black prisoners at…
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Dying from a toothache in the shadow of power
This article is adapted from a talk given at the April 1 Socialism Conference hosted by the Party for Socialism…
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Virginia Tech killings in perspective
It is at a moment of crisis that the nature of the existing social order is revealed. That which seems…
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Troops suffer shell shock in Iraq war
As the fifth year of the occupation of Iraq rages on, the consequences of the war are becoming increasingly clear.…
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