Health Equity & Social Justice

Impact of the Vanishing Middle Class

Before the Democratic Convention began, someone asked about the definition of the Middle Class. With so much rhetoric flying across the nation about who is in the Middle Class, where the poverty line resides, who are considered the rich (the Upper Class), and who is going about begging for a living,

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs

A “Young Invincible” needs health care after all

The nurse wheeled my young friend Alexander’s gurney into the emergency room. As she walked away from him, she shot out a parting remark: “This is how you lose a leg – or your life.”

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class

Health Care Law Upheld

The court ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional, defining it as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the more liberal justices in the majority. However, the court limited the federal government's power to cut off Medicaid money going to states....

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class

SCOTUS v. Obamacare: The Hidden Ironies

With the Supreme Court poised to issue its ruling on “Obamacare” any day now, many of us find ourselves wondering whether our nation’s highest court will ...make it MORE difficult for this country to achieve what virtually every other industrialized nation already guarantees as a fundamental human r

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class
Addiction and Renewal in the Hoopa Valley (video)

Addiction and Renewal in the Hoopa Valley (VIDEO)

This two-part series examines this issues on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation:
Part 1: A Community's Struggle with Addiction
Part 2: Services Offered to Recovering Drug Users 

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Mental Health