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Uncovered California: Why Millions Have Fallen Into Health Care …

WEB“Right now, I have a medicine sitting at Wal-Mart pharmacy that I can’t purchase till payday,” Jacqueline, a 55-year-old San Diegan told me during a telephone …

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The Future of Veterans’ Healthcare Hangs in the Balance

WEBIn the valley of millionaires and billionaires, a therapist can easily earn between $300 and $500 an hour and are disinclined to accept the hassles and pay rates …

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Kaiser Permanente in COVID Time: Health Care and Our Heroes

WEBIn 2020, its profits were $6.4 billion. In 2021, its net worth was $43.3 billion, according to the California Department of Managed Health Care. It returned $500 million …

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A Day Off with Pay and Much More A Healthcare Worker’s Fight …

WEBWorkers Fight for MLK Day. Sabrina Chaumette is an Oakland, CA resident and a licensed clinical social worker and a member of the National Union of Healthcare …

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Wellness Programs: Is it Our Fault We Get Sick

WEBWhy do we get sick and how do we get well were the enormously complex and controversial questions explored by a gathering of labor and community activists, …

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Signs Matter for Students' Health

WEBAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about one in ten Americans eat enough fruit and vegetables. Signs that have been posted in …

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The Real Threats to Veterans’ Healthcare

WEBby Suzanne Gordon on April 20, 2017. On Thursday April 13 th, over 250 military veterans packed into a room in the Veterans Memorial Building in San Francisco to listen to …

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City Cuts Psychiatric Beds – Taking the “Public” Out of Public Health

WEBThis year’s budget process has taken the public out of public health. Both in terms of encouraging an open, public debate about how best to serve the health care …

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Celebrating New Public Protections in 2024

WEBThankfully, Colorado’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act kicked in on Jan. 1, 2024. The law not only prohibits food establishments from using polystyrene containers, …

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Why the Supreme Court Will Uphold Health Care Law

WEBBut I see the Court upholding the law for two reasons. First, the health and pharmaceutical industries prefer Obamacare to the status quo, and to potentially more …

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The SEIU and the California Hospital Association: HOW

WEBThe Service Employees International Union (SEIU) thrives on the big splash. It is almost clocklike in the regularity with which it proclaims its latest plans to …

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The Fight for $20 and a Union: Another California Minimum Wage

WEBIn 2021, 20,000 California janitors represented by SEIU USWW ratified a new contract that will lift wages to $20 an hour for most and enhance their medical and …

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Longest Strike Ends: California Mental Health Care Workers Win Big

WEBby Cal Winslow on October 24, 2022. Two thousand mental health clinicians have won; Kaiser Permanente has lost. The 10- week strike has ended in near total victory for the …

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Will Mayor Breed Protect SF Neighborhoods From Wellness Hubs

WEBOpening Drug Sites is the New Urban Renewal. Some residents in one San Francisco neighborhood have resorted to arming themselves with baseball bats and …

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Why Doesn’t SF’s Health Department Stop Drug Dealers

WEBSocial media was full of complaints from nearby businesses and residences at the harm the Center’s lack of accompanying protections was causing. But DPH didn’t …

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NUHW Mental Health Clinicians Strike Kaiser

WEBby Cal Winslow on August 18, 2022. Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers …

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Public Health Cuts Hearing Today; Newsom’s Bad Budget Planning

WEBIt’s the same story every year. Today, the Board of Supervisors will have its Beilenson Hearing on the Mayor’s cuts to the Department of Public Health that affect …

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Drug Markets Still Plague San Francisco

WEBRandy Shaw. Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw's …

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The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave

WEBThe global coronavirus pandemic is walloping California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all 40 million residents to ‘shelter in place’ except for travel …

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