Healthcare
How Ady Barkan’s story sparked a movement
“Ady understood intuitively the power of his grueling and emotionally difficult experience to shape a political narrative.”
Elder care is a Jewish imperative. So is paying home health workers a living wage
As a 21-year-old heading off to social work school, I watched my Bubby Jenny die within six months of being put into a nursing home following a stroke. My mother and uncle, her brother, felt helpless and were shattered by both the experience and by their mother’s bitterness toward them at sending her away. There was no care support at home for my grandmother or my family.
Jews Now Have A Faith-Based Alternative To Health Insurance. But It’s Risky.
Health shares are cheap and shaped by religious values. But they don’t guarantee coverage and the first Jewish one carries an additional red flag.
Ady Barkan Will Die For Your Sins: Meet The Man Giving His Last Breath To Democracy
“It is not for you to complete the work, but neither are you free to abstain from it.”
Healthcare Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represent the Democratic future with the recognition that health care is a civil rights issue.
Cutting Reproductive Healthcare Hurts Women — And Rejects Jewish Teaching
The Trump administration’s efforts to limit reproductive healthcare are offensive to both women’s autonomy and Jewish teaching.
Bernie’s Single-Payer Plan Is Winning Over Democrats
Once viewed as marginal, the plan by Bernie Sanders for a single-payer healthcare system is now being endorsed by many in the Democratic Party.
Jimmy Kimmel Holds His Infant Son In Emotional Healthcare Plea
“I don’t know what could be more disgusting than putting a tax cut that goes to rich people ahead of the lives of children.”
What This Rosh Hashanah Liturgical Poem Means In Trump’s America
The questions that we ask on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are not theoretical. They’ve never been. But perhaps this year, we see this more than ever.
U.S. Demand For Opioid Care Has Outgrown Resources, Say Israeli Researchers
In seven years, deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. have nearly doubled. And it’s killing the national healthcare system, too.