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Blood Money

23. November 2008

The billions of dollars being lavished on banks and other corporations is blood money. It's available only because people like Heather are being robbed of their kidneys, their health and their lives.

On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? Find out in this fictional interview with Frederick Engels.

My Pain, Their Gain

29. August 2008

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by Jane Edgett -- Alberta used me to wipe out its deficit and justify privatizing its medical system.

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.

Class, Health and Health Care

30. April 2008

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This pamphlet explores how healthy profits create sick people, how class determines health more than any other factor, how Canada and the U.S. both ration medical care (in different ways), how all existing medical systems are disease-care systems, and what a genuine health-care system might look like.

Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care

25. March 2008

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Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.

Pain is the Price of Remaining Human

6. December 2007

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Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.

The U.S. and Canada: Two Models of Medical Rationing

27. June 2007

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The U.S. and Canada: Two Models of Medical Rationing

Both the U.S. and Canada ration medical services. In the U.S., rationing is based on ability to pay. Canada rations by under-funding the medical system, bringing inequality through the back door.

Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

26. May 2007

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Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Inequality affects the health of populations more than diet, smoking, exercise and access to medical care.

Abortion: Whose Decision?

28. April 2007

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The Supreme Court has banned a form of late-term abortion on the basis that it wants to protect women from making harmful decisions. Where did it get the idea that abortion is harmful, or that women can't be trusted to make their own decisions?

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Blood Money

Engels and the WHO Report

My Pain, Their Gain

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

Class, Health and Health Care

Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care

Pain is the Price of Remaining Human

The U.S. and Canada: Two Models of Medical Rationing

Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

Abortion: Whose Decision?

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