Trump campaigned on one kind of nostalgia, while Biden campaigned on another. The less regressive vision won out, but we’re still hurtling toward the abyss.

Dying? Hail an Uber, because lawmakers exempted ambulances from their medical-bill reforms—much to private equity’s delight.

He needs to prove that he is serious about breaking the policies of inequity and favoritism that flourished under Trump.

It’s not that he doesn’t have a plan. It’s just not clear how it would work—and the media hasn’t pressed him on it.

The only thing that Trump’s rallies are accomplishing in the last days of the campaign is to reinforce his supporters’ delusional beliefs about Covid-19.

Our corporate care providers may be failing America during this crisis, but that hasn’t stopped them from raking in the profits.

The president’s recent health care antics make a mockery of all the ordinary Americans who’ve died in this pandemic.

His plan to help with hospital charges is poorly designed. But even a well-crafted plan would have been no match for our inept health care system.

Small-ball innovations like telemedicine expansion can’t patch a system that’s set up to fail.

Biden says we don’t need radical ideas like Medicare for All to fix our broken system. But his more modest reforms may already be dead on arrival.

Beneath society’s plutocratic layer, America is not as united in the face of crisis as we like to pretend.

America is putting an awful lot of trust in a pharmaceutical industry that hasn’t earned it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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