Today Is Tomorrow’s Yesterday
The world is changing right before our eyes. Not only can we guide that transformation, but our very presence in that change means we control its direction.
Health & Wellbeing
Queer Communist
“True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread.”
Obamacare and the Science of Prolonged Decay
The failure of a health care “reform” fostered within the blight of the capitalist model reveals how incrementalism cannot solve the most formidable ecological and social crises of our day.
The Price of Hunger
Inadequate access to nutrition is a problem Americans can solve. It’s time to shut down the false narratives about pay-fors that keep solutions out of reach.
Your Money or Your Life
The function of government itself once it’s privatized is to make money for the donor class, which is basically the financial class and the monopoly class that finance creates.
The Illusion of Upward Mobility
There is no real entrée into the world of the elite, but you won’t know it until you arrive, exhausted, at the locked door, chased by all the angry working people who think you’ve found the key.
US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care
The American healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds. Unlike every other wealthy country, the US leaves its health insurance to the private sector, where your health and your life are a distant second to shareholder profits.
The Emperor’s New Commodities
Frauds and hucksters have always relied on false dichotomies and thought-terminating cliches to misdirect the attention of their audience from more appealing alternatives.
The Pied Piper of State Based Single Payer Initiatives
Only a unified policy implemented simultaneously across all states and territories can get the job done, and only the federal government with its power to deficit spend can pull it off.
Single Payer “State by State”? No. Here’s why…
There really is only one way to go, and we can only get there by all rowing in the same direction at the same time and forcing the federal government to enact, and fully fund, single-payer healthcare – Medicare For All.