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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/03/medicare-each-us-age-coronavirus

It is not an exaggeration to say that no reform other than publicly financed, single-payer universal health care will solve the problems of our health care system. This is true whether we are talking about a public option, a Medicare option, Medicare buy-in, Medicare…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/03/leaked-memo-reveals-amazon-execs-plotted-paint-fired-not-smart-worker-face-entire

Amazon executives plotted to smear a fired employee who had organized his fellow warehouse workers over health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus outbreak as “not smart or articulate,” according to a leaked…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/03/bernie-sanders-calls-boldest-legislation-history-halt-spiraling-covid-19-catastrophe

“We are entering a downturn that could be worse than the Great Depression,” said Turner. “We must respond to this unprecedented challenge with the boldest measures: Sanders is outlining the most comprehensive set of…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/62197-israels-refusal-to-test-its-arab-population-for-covid-19-is-a-ticking-time-bomb

Speaking on Channel 12 news on Sunday, the director general of Magen David Adom emergency medical services announced that there will be no more testing for the coronavirus in the Arab community if the criteria…[Read more]

Rising Tides, Troubled Waters: The Future of Our Ocean

The hot water killed the phytoplankton — a form of microscopic algae — that live in the top few hundred feet of the ocean. The tiny organisms that feast on them starved, including krill, the small shrimplike creatures that swarm the…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/62187-environmentalists-score-a-big-win-against-fracking-in-a-small-pennsylvania-town

Earlier this month, in a stunning reversal, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which in 2017 sued Grant Township for interfering with the agency’s authority to administer state o…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/62194-imagining-a-justice-based-health-system

We have seen a lot of countries already ravaged by this pandemic. Some have health care that is at least relatively equitable—at least compared to most countries on earth—such as Italy, and others, like the United States, do not. Are there things tha…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/02/dear-jeff-bezos-amazon-instead-of-firing-me-protect-your-workers-from-coronavirus

When I applied to work at Amazon, the job description was simple. It said you need to have a high-school diploma or a GED (general educational development) and you have to be able to lift 50lbs. That’s it. Now, b…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/still-ahead-his-time-new-video-details-bernie-sanders-prescient-warnings-about

A video released Thursday by progressive advocacy organization RootsAction uses decades of archival footage to show that the deadly coronavirus pandemic has—in just a matter of weeks—vindicated Sen. Bernie Sanders’ car…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/nation-without-medicare-all-35-million-workers-may-have-lost-employer-provided

“Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing,” EPI policy director Heidi Shierholz wrote in a Twitter thread Thursday in which she called the number of newly-uninsured “the cherry-from-hell on…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5x9z7/the-guy-who-helped-invent-the-n95-mask-thinks-hes-found-a-way-to-clean-and-reuse-them

“We are going to use heat, [158 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius)], for 30 minutes, to see if we can kill COVID-19,” he said on Tuesday afternoon. “We should get the results in one or two days.”

Tsai, a recentl…[Read more]

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/04/02/venezuela-never-involved-in-u-s-colombia-drug-circuit-ex-u-n-anti-drugs-chief/

Former vice secretary of the United Nations and former executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Pino Arlacchi, said March 28 that Venezuela has always been outside the main cocaine trafficking…[Read more]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-mass-unemployment-owing-to-the-coronavirus

Does it have to be this way? Not necessarily. As the virus and lockdowns have spread around the world, other countries have created a different type of economic environment—one that incentivizes businesses to keep employees on t…[Read more]

https://theoutline.com/post/8899/us-healthcare-system-coronavirus-icu-beds?utm_source=NL&zr=gznsee4u&zd=1&zi=h7ac6hgy

I’d like to say this event was an aberration, but in my 26 years as a patient in American hospitals, I’ve experienced rationing of all kinds. Bed shortages, medications being out of stock, nurses given too many patients, a sin…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/01/could-covid-19-reshape-global-leadership

If there is a suspected COVID-19 case in a building, the whole building is quarantined for two weeks, but quarantine Vietnam-style includes three meals a day, delivered for a small charge. All large buildings have whole-body sanitizing stations, not just hand…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/01/medicare-all-support-surges-9-month-high-new-poll-after-coronavirus-exposes-horrors

Morning Consult’s Yusra Murad wrote that the poll, conducted between March 27-29, “suggests progressive lawmakers may have an opportunity to sway key demographics—support for Medicare for All grew among people in the $…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/62169-focus-coronavirus-makes-it-more-clear-than-ever-health-care-is-a-human-right

Across the country, Americans are terrified at the potential costs if they get sick. Twenty-seven million Americans have no health insurance at all. Four in 10 working Americans have a high-deductible plan that forces…[Read more]