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Health Care

The 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, 2019

Insurance 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, 2019

This 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, 2019

Why 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, 2019

No, ‘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, 2019

Mass 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, 2019

What 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, 2019

Abortion 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, 2019

Let’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.