health care
Treating Endometriosis as a Women's Disease Hurts Patients of All Genders
Living with endo is already hard when you're a white cis woman. For LGBTQ people dealing with a "women's disease," it's especially painful.
Republicans Are Probably Going to Lose Their Latest Attempt to Kill Obamacare
The Supreme Court appeared ready to leave the Affordable Care Act largely intact for the third time on Tuesday.
Indigenous Peoples Fear Racism in Hospitals. Joyce Echaquan's Death Made It Worse
Echaquan's death in a hospital in Joliette, Quebec, while nurses made racist comments about her has made some Indigenous peoples increasingly fearful of going to the hospital for help.
U.S. Caregivers Struggle With Coronavirus in More Ways Than One
Even in normal times, life as a caregiver is tough. COVID-19 has made the personal, emotional, and economic costs difficult to bear.
India’s Public Health System Is Failing its Doctors, and Patients Are Paying the Price
“The last time I was in the emergency, I don't think there was any air conditioning available in the triage area,” one doctor told VICE News.
1 in 3 Women Struggled to Get Birth Control or Reproductive Health Care Because of Coronavirus
The pandemic has been even worse for women's reproductive health care than the 2008 recession. And this is just the beginning.
Democrats’ Big Coronavirus Idea Is to, Uh, Subsidize Health Insurers?
Instead of pushing for public health solutions, Democrats want to cover COBRA premiums.
Spain Just Opened a Massive Coronavirus Field Hospital in a Convention Center
“We have yet to receive the impact of the strongest, most damaging wave, which will test our material and moral capacities to the limit, as well as our spirit as a society.”
New Orleans ER Workers Say Hospitals Are Verging on 'Systemic Collapse'
In Louisiana, COVID-19 is spreading faster than it has anywhere else in the world. The state is home to some of the nation's sickest and poorest people, and health care professionals fear the virus will overwhelm emergency resources in as soon as a week.
It Sure Sounds Like Joe Biden Would Veto Medicare for All If He Were President
On the eve of the Michigan primary, Biden wasn't showing any interest in wooing the left flank of the Democratic Party.
Here Are the 5 Biggest Policy Differences Between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden
The contrast between the two remaining candidates couldn’t be more stark.
There Are No Private Solutions to a Public Health Crisis
One thing you can you do about coronavirus? Vote for the candidate who is most likely to make universal health care a reality.