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A viral complaint about a doctor’s professional fees has sparked an online debate that seems to pit doctors against patients.

The United States not only spends twice as much on healthcare as European nations, but our system produces inferior results.

From this vantage point, universal health care is about common dignity, the idea that each of us believes in the basic worth of another's life. We may not have lived up to that standard yet, but ...

From 2011 to 2020, emergency room visits for mental health reasons among U.S. youth went up dramatically. Many of these ...

Universal health care (UHC) is a broad term that describes the provision of quality health services to every citizen while protecting them from the financial consequences that the use of expensive ...

Universal health care (UHC) takes different forms globally. The UK's NHS is an example of a single-payer system, funded by general taxation.

Though a universal health care is desired by many, it remains a touchy subject. Typically, talk of universal plans stirs images of socialized medicine like that found in England.

America doesn’t have universal health care coverage – what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls “a widely shared political aim of most countries” – but neither do most other countries.

While we continue to educate and advocate for universal health care as a long-term effort, those of us in CCC4UHC also see a pressing immediate public health need for COVID-19 testing.