Health Care
Interview: The Mount Sinai Scandal Shows Everything Wrong with US Healthcare
A recently released report on horrifying conditions in one of New York City’s major hospitals revealed the way that profit-driven understaffing and overcrowding lead to patient death and deplorable conditions for healthcare workers. The Mount Sinai Hospital scandal is just one example of the dismal quality of care under capitalism.
Left Voice
December 24, 2019The Police are Bad for Your Health
Police are bad for our health. It is up to all those who strive to improve societal well being to oppose the violence the institution of “law enforcement “continues to perpetrate on us all.
Mike Pappas
December 2, 2019Insurance Companies Are Bad for Our Health: A Case for Medicare for All
We need free, universal, comprehensive health care in the US. The first step is to eliminate health insurance companies, which all put profits over patients.
Left Voice
September 24, 2019This is What Happens When the Boss Controls Your Health Care
The decision by General Motors executives to stop funding the health insurance of striking employees is yet another example of the way that employers can use such benefits as a cudgel to punish workers. A system of free and universal public health care is the only solution.
James Dennis Hoff
September 19, 2019Why Business Unionists Don’t Support Medicare for All
Major business unions are revealing their real motives by either being against Medicare for All plans or supporting health care plans that still enable private insurers. These stances promote the preservation of the unions themselves, to the detriment of the working class as a whole. Workers must organize against their union bureaucracies and force their unions to adopt more democratic processes.
Carmin Maffea
September 10, 2019No, ‘Medicare for All’ Won’t Take Away Anyone’s Health Insurance
A broad spectrum of conservatives–from centrist Democrats to CNN hosts–love to say that ‘Medicare for All’ will take away your insurance. It is just a lie to shield the profits of the health insurance industry.
Juan Cruz Ferre
August 14, 2019Mass Protests Accompany Eighth Attempt to Legalize Abortion in Argentina
On Tuesday, a bill to legalize abortion was presented in Congress for the eighth time. Thousands on the streets all across the country demanded: Let it be law!
Gloria Grinberg
May 31, 2019What You Need to Know About the NYC Nurses’ Struggle
Catch up on Left Voice articles about the recent NYC nurses' struggles.
Left Voice
May 28, 2019Abortion Access Will Only be Won Through a Broad Grassroots Movement
The attacks on abortion rights aren't new. Here, Anne Rumberger explains why we can't trust the Democrats, we have to build a movement for reproductive justice.
Anne Rumberger
May 21, 2019Let’s Shut Down the Economy to Fight for Abortion Rights
Abortion is becoming illegal again. The best way to fight against these restrictive laws is mass mobilizations and strikes—not sex strikes, but strikes that grind the entire capitalist system to a halt.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
May 17, 2019