Archive - Health and Capital

How incremental healthcare reforms built the industries we're fighting today (Part One)

The history of American healthcare reforms contains an important message for the fight for Medicare for All: don't stop now.

Aug 30, 2020 •

How Kamala Harris rebranded Medicare for All

And why advocates of single payer should be concerned about her becoming VP

Aug 13, 2020 •

Break up the nursing homes

How America's long-term care crisis collided with the pandemic, and how to undo it

Aug 5, 2020 •

July 2020

Want to bend the curve? Abolish police and prisons

Prisons and jails were a public health crisis before the pandemic. In the middle of one, they're an engine for mass producing infection

Jul 25, 2020 •

Pulling deaths from the future

How is it that we've normalized mass death during the pandemic?

Jul 22, 2020 •

Waiting for the dole

The cold calculus of not acting on unemployment insurance in the middle of the pandemic

Jul 18, 2020 •

To Avoid A Prolonged Depression, Pass Medicare for All Immediately

The United States faces a health crisis of its own making, set to collide headfirst with the pandemic

Jul 15, 2020 •

Who shall live?

Welcome to Health and Capital

Jul 14, 2020 •

Pandemic Capitalism

Welcome to Health and Capital, a project by Artie Vierkant.

Jul 5, 2020

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