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Hakeem Jeffries with a sign that reads "Hands off Medicaid and SNAP"
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The Historic Dangers of Slashing Medicaid Funding

Medicaid has always been fiercely contested political terrain, and past cuts have had disastrous human costs.
by Ben Zdencanovic via Made By History on May 6, 2025
Union veterans at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Erie Pennsylvania, ca. 1897.
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How Work Requirements for Medicaid Hurt People with ‘Invisible’ Disabilities

"Able-bodied” doesn't always mean “able to work.”
by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Made By History on January 18, 2018
Tom Scully, stethescopes, and money.

Patient Zero

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
by David Dayen via The American Prospect on August 1, 2023
A picture of George Aumoithe in a hallway of concrete walls.

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.
by George Aumoithe, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on January 19, 2022
Protestors on a march, holding signs that read "Healthcare is a Human Right" and "Insulin or food should not be a choice: Medicare for All"

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Repeated failures by both political parties to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the Affordable Care Act.
by Ryan Cooper via The Nation on November 28, 2021

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018

A Brief History of American Health Reform

In order to win universal health care, we have to understand what — and who — we're up against.
by Colin Gordon via Jacobin on July 25, 2017

On Health Care, History is Watching. And it’s Watching Four Senators in Particular.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.
by E. J. Dionne Jr. via Washington Post on July 16, 2017

The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 27, 2017

How Medicare Both Salved and Scarred American Health Care

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy
by Julian E. Zelizer via Zócalo Public Square on February 17, 2017

How Medicare Was Made

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The New Yorker on February 15, 2015
Folk singer Tom Glazer performs in July 1965 for nearly 400 children enrolled in Head Start centers at Saratoga Square Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. (AP)

Evaluating the Success of the Great Society

Lyndon B. Johnson's visionary set of legislation turns 50 years old.
via Washington Post on May 17, 2014
Lyndon B. Johnson speaking with a U.S. soldier in Vietnam in 1966.

The Cost of Overcorrecting on Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam

For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.
by Fredrik Logevall, Julian E. Zelizer via The New Republic on December 2, 2023
Ohio abortion rights activists.
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The Problem With the Abortion-Rights Move That Worked in Ohio

History shows that activists can win statewide fights—but that the strategy might be unsustainable long-term.
by Felicia Kornbluh via Made By History on November 8, 2023
Photo of surgeons performing surgery in a dimly lit operation room.
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For Hospitals, ‘Nonprofit’ Doesn't Mean ‘Charitable’

Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.
by Colleen M. Grogan via Made By History on September 28, 2023
Oil painting by Claire Lehmann called "Painter’s Hand, Patron’s Hand."

Learning and Not Learning Abortion

The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.
by Laura Kolbe via n+1 on November 15, 2022
Elder Leslie Mathews, an organizer with Michigan United, joins leaders of the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign as they speak to supporters on July 11 in Lansing, Mich., after turning in 753,759 signatures to qualify for Michigan's November ballot.
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Abortion Initiatives Expose the Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy

Ballot initiatives, referendums, and other forms of direct democracy have a mixed track record of empowering the people.
by Elisabeth Clemens via Made By History on October 27, 2022
A protest sign raised in front of the Supreme Court, reading, "Keep abortion safe, legal, & accessible!"

The History of Abortion Law in the United States

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.
by Carrie N. Baker via Our Bodies Ourselves Today on August 12, 2022
Third World Women's Alliance member demonstrating in crowd

How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on February 22, 2022
Pile of US paper currency.

Austerity Policies In The United States Caused ‘Stagflation’ In The 1970s

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via Washington Center For Equitable Growth on January 11, 2022
This image made available by the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research in 2015 shows human colon cancer cells with the nuclei stained red.
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Richard Nixon’s War On Cancer Has Lessons For Biden’s New Push Against The Disease

Fifty years later, the legacy of the National Cancer Act illustrates the need for a broad approach.
by Eugene Rusyn, Abbe R. Gluck via Made By History on December 21, 2021
Picture of Joe Manchin

Joe Manchin’s Deep Corporate Ties

An underexamined aspect of Manchin’s pro-business positions in the Senate is his early membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council.
by Dan Kaufman via The New Yorker on October 26, 2021
Picture of a parent holding a child in a run-down room

The US Hasn't Changed How it Measures Who's Poor Since LBJ Began His War

Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America's poor, which is necessary to helping them.
by Mark Robert Rank via The Conversation on July 12, 2021
A promotional postcard for Prudential Insurance Company of America, c. 1958

Our Insurance Dystopia

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.
by Caley Horan via Boston Review on June 14, 2021
Undocumented students in support of DACA
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Biden Will Allow Undocumented Students To Access Pandemic Relief

For decades, policymakers have debated who may access public education and the social safety net.
by Sarah R. Coleman via Made By History on June 1, 2021
Two prison employees standing outside a prison cell.

The Truth About Deinstitutionalization

A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. The reality is more complicated.
by Alisa Roth via The Atlantic on May 25, 2021
High Schoolers in Arkansas painting a nuclear test

The Long Road to Nuclear Justice for the Marshallese People

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.
by Olivia Paschal via Facing South on April 2, 2021
Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
by Gabriel Winant, Nick Serpe via Dissent on March 18, 2021
Black and White photo of demonstrators

When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on January 19, 2021
Protesters opposing ICE detention camps.
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The History of Eugenics in the U.S. Has Made Migrant Women Vulnerable

Marginalized women of color have long seen their reproductive freedom limited.
by Brianna Theobald via Made By History on September 20, 2020
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