Archive: Health Care

• WCP: Jobs and Medicare for All

  The idea of Medicare for All is gaining attention and support in American politics — so much that it’s now getting careful analysis of its benefits and costs. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Jack Metzgar considers the most significant cost: jobs for workers in health care and the insurance industry. A better health plan, he argues, must be accompanied by a just transition policy for workers.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Bernie Sanders, Health Care, Jack Metzgar, Job Displacement, John Russo, Medicare For All, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives

• SCOTT: Equalize Employment Process

  Amanda L. Scott is an Alabama native, D.C. transplant, civil rights paralegal in the Georgetown University Class of 2019. I almost missed out on my dream job because of $400 in medical debt. After

  Categories: Articles, Student Leaders Tags: Amanda Scott, Credit History, Credit Scores, Health Care, Medical Debt, Unemployment

• WCP: A Working-Class Appreciation for the National Health Service

  The National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain provides universal access to all levels of health care with no payment required at point of service. As Sarah Attflied describes in this week's Wor

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Great Britain, Health Care, hospitals, John Russo, National Health System, NHS, nurses, Privatization, public services, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Health Class

  The United States has long struggled to expand access to high quality health care to all its people, yet the health of the poor and the working-class is also tied to social factors such as where the

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Care Act, Health Care, John Russo, Kenneth Thompson, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, Social determinants, WCP, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives