US Health Issues
Obama administration unveils new cost-cutting plans for health care
By Joe Kishore, July 9, 2009
The administration is working closely with various corporate interests to shave health care costs, including $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments announced on Wednesday.
US Medicare, Medicaid cuts threaten health care
By Kate Randall, July 7, 2009
The Obama administration plans to slash $317 billion through Medicare and Medicaid “efficiencies.
US: Arizona government prepares new attacks on women’s reproductive health rights
By Naomi Spencer and Natascha Grimmelshausen, June 27, 2009
Arizona’s state legislature this week moved toward major restrictions on abortion and contraception with the passage of two reactionary bills.
White House health care forum: Obama’s plan for “evidence-based” medical cuts
By Kate Randall, June 26, 2009
A White House forum on health care provided some insight into the Obama administration’s vision for a reform of the system.
Take the profit out of health care
By Kate Randall, June 23, 2009
Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the state of the nation’s health care system.
Michigan Democratic governor imposes emergency budget cuts
State workers, Medicaid recipients hit hard
By Debra Watson, June 18, 2009
The impact of emergency budget cuts being implemented by Democratic Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm will fall heavily on the most vulnerable layers of the population.
Congressional Budget Office projection
Democratic health bill would leave 37 million uninsured in 2019
By Kate Randall, June 17, 2009
A Congressional Budget Office report estimates that health care legislation being drafted by a Democratic Senate committee would leave 36 million Americans uninsured, while costing $1 trillion over 10...
Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
By Jerry White, June 16, 2009
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama called for cuts in funding for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, including the elimination of subsidie...
Obama chooses private profit over healthcare needs
By Patrick Martin, June 8, 2009
The Obama administration has launched a campaign for a healthcare plan that seeks to reduce the cost to American corporations of providing insurance, while offering little to the 47 million people now...
US: Growing impact of the health care crisis on women
By Natascha Grimmelshausen, June 2, 2009
The costly and inefficient system of health care has been a major concern for millions of working Americans. Women and children are among those hardest hit by this crisis.
Media sensationalism, corporate power and the swine flu outbreak
By Alex Lantier, May 4, 2009
The handling of the swine flu outbreak underscores the difficulty, in the present political environment, of separating medical science from corporate interests and the political agendas of governments...
Defending the profits of the health care industry
White House Forum on Health Reform
By Tom Eley, March 7, 2009
With his Forum on Health Reform, Obama has set out to achieve the impossible: effect health care “reform” that in no way touches the wealth and power of the health care industry.
