HeyJaredHealing and Stealing
Deep dives and short takes on an industry that extracts wealth from our health and the people who heal and comfort us in the face of terrible working conditions.
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Hospital Fires 5% of Nurses; Nurses Form Union Anyway (opens the original)
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Some days it pays to get out of bed early and work late. Last Thursday, I got up at 6, drove 360 miles to shadow a canvasser in Maine’s Senate election, drove another 70 miles to my hotel in Lewiston, dumped my stuff and rushed to nearby Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC). My reward? Seeing ecstatic nurses celebrate a landslide union election victory in the face of repression.In the ten days before the election, CMMC management fired 15 nurses and suspended 5 more. The boss literally fired 5% o
Meet the Health Care Thought Police (opens the original)
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Whenever too many people get mad about how much money they’re paying for so little health care and so much murderous bureaucracy, an opportunity opens up for pundits and NGOs to join the Legitimate Left Discourse Border Patrol. These scolds defend Democratic politicians (and their corporate funders) by shouting down demands for Medicare for All or similar publicly-financed universal coverage proposals as deluded or dangerous.Part III of Healing and Stealing’s series on the national Democratic Pa
Dressing Up Cosmetic Reform as Medicare for All (opens the original)
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If you’re a gambler, you might consider finding somewhere to bet on how often corporate Democratic politicians will say the words “a national health insurance plan for anyone” in the next three years. Healing and Stealing suspects it’ll be a big number.Part I of our primer on national Democrats’ campaign against Medicare for All examined how commitment to corporate health care limits Democratic leaders’ ability to offer substantive incremental policy improvements to lure voters away from M4A.P
Shackled to Corporate Health Care (opens the original)
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In March, national Democratic leaders announced that they planned to run on restoring the glory of the 2024 health care system in this year’s elections. That was before progressive candidates started winning House and Senate primary races. It’s amazing what a hefty injection of fear will do to a decrepit near-corpse.As primary voters in multiple states rejected establishment Democratic incumbents and open-seat candidates, national leaders roused themselves to action. Their solution? Dust off the
Expert Misinformation on Medicare for All (opens the original)
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In policy discussions, people sometimes disagree over which facts are relevant and how to interpret them. At other times, people just repeat provable falsehoods. Meet Larry Levitt, due to become CEO in January of what used to be called the Kaiser Family Foundation,* which describes itself as “the leading health policy organization in the U.S.”Last month, Levitt had an exchange on X (“Twitter”) with billionaire Mark Cuban, founder of a discount pharmaceutical benefits management and health care d
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