| Sep 27, 2017 | Economy / BusinessRather than a health care system, our country’s leaders have kept us shackled to a “corporate care” system. This allows insurance giants, drug company gougers, hospital chains, and other profiteers to ration our care based on whether a family can pay...
| Jan 18, 2017 | Environment / HealthFor most people, prescription drugs are a lifeline. For Representative Tom Price, Donald Trump’s health secretary nominee, they’re a source of profits. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug and health corporation investments line the pockets of...
| Nov 23, 2016 | Environment / HealthAnyone who owns a pet knows that the cost of caring for old Fluffy or Fido has gone up considerably over recent years. Economists from Stanford and MIT have just published some research that details how dramatic this increase has been. Between 1996 and 2013, they...
| Nov 16, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWe’re already starting to see how America’s gamble on Donald Trump will pay off: with gifts to the corporations and billionaires he swore he’d put us above. One of Trump’s first priorities is to repeal one of the only federal laws standing between us and...