“Any gains we made in funding for health departments, syringe exchanges, naloxone distribution—it’s all at risk.”

It seems clear that if voters want lawmakers to end this galling practice, they will have to first end some lawmakers’ careers.

Five million have lost coverage amid the pandemic—a number that’s expected to triple by year’s end. But the party leadership isn’t reacting as though it’s a crisis.

Parents are working while their kids stay home from school. Grocery budgets are thin. Rents are due. This was never sustainable.

The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.

Decades of attacks on public programs have led us to a point where we’re arguing about personal responsibility in the midst of a pandemic.

America’s health care system is doing what it does best: rigging the game to extract maximum profits from an ongoing catastrophe.

On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell

Long before they were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, our nursing homes were a place of heartlessness, abuse, and neglect.

After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.

A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.

Six ideas for how to rebuild after the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.

A journey into the desperate world of ordinary citizens trying to get personal protective equipment to health care workers—against hospitals’ wishes

The young base of Bernie Sanders may never love the Democratic nominee, but there’s a middle ground on which they might meet.

America’s gendered approach to “national security” means preparing for wars, not pandemics.

Subsidizing stopgap insurance may enrich providers, but it's not a solution for this crisis. I know because I’m on it.

Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are fighting a pandemic—and an antagonistic White House.

Even in a pandemic, we are stuck in the same nightmarish feedback loop of racist policy. The results are predictable and deadly.

Free, universal health care would not have stopped the coronavirus, but it would have protected the poor and vulnerable.