UK healthcare workers have been calling in sick because they can’t afford the gasoline they need to get to work, public services union Unison revealed on Thursday. The possibility of widespread strikes looms in the coming months as the government has refused to increase wages, fearing a wage-price spiral fed …
Read More »First US state to offer universal healthcare
California would become the first US state to offer health insurance for all – including migrants inside the country illegally – under a new budget proposal revealed by Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. “Here’s the big one: California is poised to be, if this proposal is supported, the first state …
Read More »Singapore cancels free Covid healthcare for those ‘unvaccinated by choice’
“Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizable majority of those who require intensive inpatient care, and disproportionately contribute to the strain on our healthcare resources,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday, adding that the same group makes up “the bulk of severe and ICU cases” and imposes “a …
Read More »From ‘healthcare heroes’ to 2nd-class zeroes: New York hospitals sack their unvaxxed employees as police state’s jaws snap shut
Monday was the deadline for New York’s healthcare workers to receive their first vaccine dose, and the state’s facade of blissful obedience has already begun to crack. While New York City Health + Hospitals head Dr. Mitchell Katz has reported that just 5% of city nurses were unvaccinated (and presumably …
Read More »Healthcare workers are burned out by the Covid-19 pandemic and need care themselves. But who will help the helpers?
Apart from being an unexpected catastrophe itself, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a chain reaction of consequences that need to be urgently addressed. One of its devastating effects is a deep crisis within the global healthcare community. Doctors, nurses, and other medical staff who found themselves battling the virus need …
Read More »Tara Reade: Here’s why we have to march for healthcare in America
This month, billionaires launched their obscenely expensive metal phalluses into space at the cost of multimillions and the mainstream press toadies to them like obsequious little lap dogs. However, the always entertaining congresswoman from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, was widely praised on social media after dragging Jeff Bezos as he rocketed …
Read More »Boris Johnson’s UK government gave out ‘pathetic’ pandemic pay rise to healthcare workers, scorns tennis champ Murray at Wimbledon
Prime minister Boris Johnson insisted that the rise was the maximum affordable when it was announced earlier this year, with the recently-resigned health secretary, Matt Hancock, dismissing in parliament suggestions that the amount barely covered the rate of inflation. The issue has been a considerable point of contention nationally, including …
Read More »Universal healthcare ‘absolute necessity’ during pandemic, Dems have ‘no excuses’ not to provide it – Bernie Sanders’s son to RT
Sanders, a campaign policy strategist, told RT’s Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground that the single-payer system Americans call Medicare-for-all enjoys popular support in the US and is needed now more than ever. “It is absolutely a necessity amidst the worst pandemic that we had, probably, in a hundred years. It …
Read More »Obamacare is back: Biden signs executive orders on healthcare, reinstates abortion funding
The first order instructs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to open a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act from February 15 to May 15, giving unemployed Americans a chance to sign up for health insurance. The order also instructs federal agencies to review “rules and …
Read More »Healthcare reform: what will change in the lives of Ukrainians
The health Ministry explained the main innovations of the reform. A free trial medicine has bought it from 1 January 2018, the country will start to operate the reformed health system that will make the part of the service is really free, you will stop the rampant medical corruption and …
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