Phil E. Benjamin

U.S.

French heat deaths point to health funding crisis

October 17, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The World Health Organization has ranked the French health insurance system, where the labor movement is involved in its policy-making from top and bottom, as the best in the world.

U.S.

Bush attacks OSHA

September 26, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

This year’s proposed budget has the Bush administration cutting the already meager budgets of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

U.S.

Health crisis fueled by greed

September 19, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The escalating health care crisis, while causing an ever-widening circle of human misery, is also revealing the ugly underbelly of U.S. capitalism. The health crisis is giving rise to a raft of illegal and fraudulent practices,...

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White House muzzled 9/11 health risks

September 5, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Labor unions that represent the thousands of rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center (WTC) towers site in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have suspected for some time that they weren’t...

Opinion

Reject Bushs attack on Medicaid

August 29, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

At a June 13 New York forum titled “Ending the safety net as we know it? Assessing the new federal block grant proposals,” leaders of the Community Service Society (CSS) and the Brookings Institution tackled probably...

U.S.

Vets in same boat as injured workers

August 15, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.

U.S.

Victory against lead poisoning in NYC

August 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

In the early 1980s, public health, children’s advocates and pro-people politicians won passage of a law that required the elimination of all lead-based paint, where it exists, in New York City residential housing. It was known...

Other

Re-federalize Medicare

August 1, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

With the spotlight on Medicare, especially as it relates to the cost of prescription drugs, now may be a good time to redirect the discussion toward real solutions to the health care crisis.

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