To avoid the catastrophic effects on our health and our economy of hollowing out our primary care system, the U.S. should create a national program for universal public primary care.
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Public pharmaceutical enterprises are free from the constraints of profit maximization and can define their bottom line based on such values as their contributions to public health and local economic resiliency.
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The Democracy Collaborative moderated a panel at Netroots Nation 2020 featuring three leaders of grassroots campaigns designed to advance public ownership in banking, energy and housing.
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In his new white paper, “Biomed Europa: after the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly,” Italian economist Massimo Florio proposes an international, transparent, public phar
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by Dana Brown, Alex Lawson, Christopher Morten, Fran Quigley
Now is the time to redesign our medicines system around open science practices, full-cycle public pharmaceutical production, compulsory licensing, and public ownership of the vaccine industry.
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As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold in the US through the summer of 2020, evidence mounts that the pandemic has become an extinction event for small businesses.
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There is a great deal of confusion about both what socialism and capitalism mean. Here is a look at different systems or models of socialism, capitalism, and solidarity economy, a post-capitalist framework that emerged in Latin America and Europe in the 1990s.
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The effects of a local firm facing economic disaster can ripple destructively through a community. Public holding companies could take either partial or full ownership positions in distressed firms to prevent the economic and social dislocations associated with liquidation or collapse.
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An interactive timeline chronicles key moments in the movement to advance the nationalization of the fossil fuel industry, which would enable a managed just transition to renewable energy.
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