Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/health/page/3/)
About health and the struggle for universal health care.
Going green is about more than buying all the gluten-free quinoa you can fit in your Prius. It’s about community organizing against corporate polluters and challenging environmental racism — and then enjoying your quinoa.
The measure would establish a state-run exchange for undocumented immigrants earning $15,000 or less a year per person to purchase health care. It would also given them access to the state-funded-only Medi-Cal program.
Rabbi Michael Lerner provides us with a chapter from his book Spirit Matters to give an idea of NSP’s vision for Transformative Medicine.
Open any local paper and you are likely to read the following headline: “Survivor Loses Battle with Cancer.” We have adopted the language of war. Those with the disease are described as heroes. Finding a cure is a war. Our medical community leads our forces. Everyone must join the fight. I challenge this metaphor.
Sarah Palin has done a terrible injustice to humane, caring and coordinated healthcare when she spoke out against palliative care without any factual or medical knowledge. I have written this Open Letter to Mrs. Palin to help educate people and try to undo some of the harm she and others have done.
Donna Swarthout decided to take advantage of the German law that allows families persecuted by the Nazis to have their citizenship restored. In the wake of the government shutdown she feels that she has made the right choice, and finds relief in the German healthcare, educational, transportation, and political systems.
If Radical Decency challenges us to be decent at all times and without exception does this mean that those of us who are not saints are doomed to fail? This blog tackles this issue; framing Radical Decency as an aspirational practice; arguing that we realize its promise – not when we’re perfect – but when we practice it with focus, persistence, imagination, and guts.
Discriminatory practices of health insurance companies have led to poor access to care and inadequate coverage, leaving only a fraction of those with mental illness getting treatment. But under the Affordable Care Act, people suffering from mental illness will no longer be left unsupported.
In the Anthropocene Age of the human, we can see that our actions have caused high impact of global geophysical change and we are now living on a new planet that is different than that of our ancestors. As beings who have come from the elements of the earth, we need to learn to appreciate them before we cause our own destruction.
Craig Wiesner details the speedy success he had when looking into what effects the Affordable Care Act could have on him and his small business.