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.
Continue reading...Saturday, April 28, 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?
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Our rulers love the concept of "community," as long as it doesn’t mean abolishing class divisions.
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 1, 1999
While the authors of this book shatter "common sense" myths about health, they promote another myth – that health policy is shaped by science, when it is actually shaped by the needs of the capitalist system.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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