US Health Issues
Thousands attend free health clinic in Los Angeles
By Dan Conway, August 18, 2009
World Socialist Web Site reporters recently spoke with attendees at a free health care clinic in the Los Angeles area, the largest event of its kind ever held in the United States.
The Massachusetts model
The New York Times and Obama’s health care counterrevolution
By Kate Randall, August 14, 2009
The New York Times has again come to the defense of Obama’s health care proposals with an editorial praising the Massachusetts health care system.
What is behind the opposition to the Obama healthcare plan?
By Patrick Martin, August 12, 2009
President Obama’s proposed restructuring of the US healthcare system has come under ferocious attack over the past week. Right-wing activists, in many cases organized by groups affiliated with the R...
The drug lobby demands, and gets, Obama pledge to protect health care profits
By Kate Randall, August 7, 2009
The Obama White House has acknowledged it made a deal with drug makers to block moves in Congress to obtain any cost savings beyond the $80 billion already agreed to by the pharmaceutical lobby.
US health care lobby pumps millions into Obama’s cost-cutting drive
By Kate Randall, August 5, 2009
In the maneuvering surrounding the effort in Washington to enact an overhaul of the US health care system, the health care industry is pumping in record amounts of cash to the politicians involved.
Obama, Congress back deeper attacks on health care for workers
By Barry Grey, July 30, 2009
The corporate response to the erosion of popular support for the Obama health care plan has been to campaign more energetically for its adoption and urge quick action by the Senate Finance Committee.
Obama’s health care counterrevolution
By Kate Randall and Barry Grey, July 28, 2009
In a full-page editorial published Sunday, entitled “Health Care Reform and You,” the New York Times seeks to present Obama’s proposals to slash costs and ration health care as a boon to the Ame...
A model for Obama’s health care plan
Massachusetts proposes rationing of health care for workers
By Kate Randall, July 25, 2009
In a move that could have wide-ranging implications for any restructuring of the national health care system, Massachusetts has proposed scrapping “fee-for-service” payments to providers and insti...
Obama press conference: Evasions and lies on plan to slash health care for workers
By Patrick Martin, July 23, 2009
President Obama’s press conference Wednesday night was an hour-long effort to conceal from the American people the sweeping impact of the cuts in medical benefits that will be imposed in his adminis...
The class issues in the US health care debate
By Kate Randall and Barry Grey, July 22, 2009
The Obama administration’s push for health care “reform” has exposed the class realities that dominate American politics and the social interests which Obama defends.
US health care debate shaped by cost-cutting “efficiencies”
By Kate Randall, July 21, 2009
The Senate and House versions of health care reform both outline an overhaul of the system that would link provision of care to cost-cutting “efficiencies.”
US health care legislation to leave millions uninsured, ration care
By Kate Randall, July 17, 2009
In the Congressional debate on health care this week, both a House and Senate version of legislation conformed to Obama administration proposals for rationed medical care and contained costs.
