CEO of failing hospital chain got $250M amid patient deaths, layoffs, bankruptcy
Steward Health Care System, run by CEO Ralph de la Torre, filed for bankruptcy in May.
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Robert Pollin: The Emerging Divide Between Sanders and Warren on Medicare for All
The growing chasm between Sanders’ and Warren’s “Medicare for All” plans increasingly highlights which candidate is genuinely serious about fighting for universal healthcare, with the release of Warren’s extremely convoluted, regressively funded, and loophole-ridden so-called “Medicare for All” plan.
The New Poor People’s Campaign Continues Where MLK Left Off, to Fight for Economic Justice (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Fifty years after Martin Luther King called for a march to Washington, D.C., to draw attention to poverty in America, the Poor People’s Campaign is being revived. Led by the Rev. William Barber, marches from across the nation will again head to the nation’s capital on June 23.
Sanders Proposal to Import Cheaper Drugs from Canada Killed …By Corporate Democrats
On Thursday, January 12, 2017, 13 Democrats split from the majority of the party to join the Republican majority in the Senate in voting against a proposal submitted by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-sponsored with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), that would allow U.S. citizens to legally import prescription drugs from Canada at lower prices. The amendment was voted down with the final vote count at 52 to 46, with one senator each from both parties not voting. Meanwhile, 13 Republicans surprisingly defected from the party majority to cross the aisle in favor of it.