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The U.S. is wrestling with a massive mental health crisis – impacting young people in particular. Half of young adults and one-third of all adults report that they always feel anxious or have o...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/mental-health-for-profit-insurance-a-deadly-combo/

We hear it over and over again – the private sector just does it better. Whether we’re talking education or healthcare or our criminal justice system, the default Republican (and sometimes De...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/cyberattacks-messaging-wars-and-the-capitalist-hellscape/

Occasional fistfights aside, most of our legislators make the choice to use their words when they’re angry, and a lot of those words go into public letters they write to presidents, officials, ...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-battle-of-the-letters-medicare-advantage/

Here at the Medicare for All Podcast, we love calling out all the bad actors in our healthcare system – greedy insurance companies, soul-less CEOs in Big Pharma,profit-hungry “non-profit hosp...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/final-hospital-merger-mania/

Just this Monday, we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, a tribute to one of the great leaders of the movement for racial justice – but something that often gets forgotten in the flurry of MLK q...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/racial-equity-in-healthcare/

It’s that time again folks… time for a Mailbag Episode! We reached out to our whole audience and all our supporters to find the pressing questions on everyone’s mind. Or at least we would h...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/mailbag-episode-super-fans-edition/

Open enrollment. Deductible. Coinsurance. HMO. Indemnity plan. If you’re listening this far, you probably have a migraine already. Understanding the language of the health insurance industry, l...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/what-even-is-health-insurance/

If you’ve ever had an experience with the American healthcare system, you’ve probably walked away thinking, “Why can’t we have nice things? Or even basic human things??” We get stuck on...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/how-the-other-half-lives-concierge-care/

Just over a month ago we lost Bob Barker, the man who taught us all about the brutal nature of capitalism one pricing game at a time. Now, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal gover...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-price-is-right-for-prescription-drugs/

With all the threats facing our country – climate change, a predatory economy, corporations buying our elections, and the overt move towards fascism among the far right – you would think that...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/transgender-healthcare-under-attack/