Susan L. Rosenthal

Aug 12, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Dimitri A. Christakis |Aaron M. Milstone |Alison Galbraith |Susan L. Rosenthal

On Scientific Publication and Politics Science is an iterative and imperfect process that arcs toward truth. Increasingly, the process itself is being criticized because findings are sometimes contradictory. The COVID-19 epidemic put this into sharp relief as we learned more about the effectiveness of preventive and treatment actions and recommendations accordingly evolved. Findings were filtered, amplified, interpreted, and disseminated through political channels.

Mar 17, 2023 | popularresistance.org | Susan L. Rosenthal

Above photo: Health care rally in Canada in 2016. Council of Canadians/Flickr. Dr. Susan Rosenthal describes the rise of Canada’s public health system during labor’s rebellious postwar period. And the corporate profiteering by which it is now being destroyed. Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a potential death blow to public Medicare. If it becomes law, the provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.

Mar 17, 2023 | znetwork.org | Susan L. Rosenthal

Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a potential death blow to public Medicare. If it becomes law, the provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector. While defenders of public Medicare blame Conservative Premier Doug Ford, British Columbia, Quebec and Saskatchewan are going down the same road. If we hope to reverse this disaster, we need to know how Canadians won Medicare in the first place, and why they are losing it.