Provisions passed by the House last year that subjected insulin products to Medicare price negotiation and capped Medicare insulin copays at $35 per month have been left out of the latest draft of the bill.
Getting Stiffed on Health Care — Again
Category: Income Inequality
Excessive Wealth Disorder in the US
Sam Pizzigati welcomes a national “Tax the Ultra-Rich Now” campaign that aims to to challenge profound inequality in the U.S.
Will Our Children Be Able to Read?
The sharp attack on education during this past decade forces us to consider the kind of future that young people will inherit, writes Vijay Prashad.
Craig Murray: Boris Johnson & the UK Decline
Starbucks, Amazon & More Organizing in US
None of the upstart unions has won a contract yet, Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay report. But there is a new sense of possibility among workers at some of the country’s biggest nonunion employers.
Taxing the Rich to Boost Social Security
Instead of growing financial security, Sam Pizzigati says the current retirement system in the U.S. is growing greater overall economic inequality.
US Taxpayers Spent Billions Inflating CEO Pay
Sarah Anderson says Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.
Craig Murray: The Power of Lies
The press has been neither humiliated nor found out because most of the country still believes the lies they were told and have not seen corrected.
Chris Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
US Nurses Union Demands Medicare for All
Bella DeVaan says universal healthcare would close crucial gaps in a wasteful, privatized model that left the American healthcare system ill-prepared for the pandemic.