- Winter 2018
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- Issue 28
The Health of Nations
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That is why all improvers of our situation who merely concentrate on health are so petit-bourgeois and odd, the raw fruit and vegetable brigade, the passionate herbivores, or even those who practice special breathing techniques. All this is a mockery compared with solid misery, compared with diseases which are produced not by weak flesh but by powerful hunger, not by faulty breathing but by dust, smoke, and lead. Of course there are people who breathe correctly, who combine a pleasant self-assurance with well-ventilated lungs and an upright torso which is flexible to a ripe old age. But it remains a prerequisite that these people have money; which is more beneficial for a stooped posture than the art of breathing.
Front Matters
Shake Well Before Serving

The Soapbox
Letters + The Internet Speaks (print/pdf only)
Struggle Session
Bernie Sanders Has a Message
And the message is good.
Summoning the Future

The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.
Means of Deduction
We Got More Graphs Than Ezra Klein

Transitions
A Century of Neglect (print/pdf only)
One hundred years of dysfunctional health care policy in the richest country on Earth.
The Vulgar Empiricist
Better Red Than Dead (print/pdf only)
Despite poverty and blockade, Cuba has triumphed where the US has failed in health care.
Uneven & Combined
The Will to Mend (print/pdf only)
What if the United States had an internationalist medical program like Cuba?
Reading Materiel
Jacobin Is a Powerful Tool for Healing Your Mind, Body, and Spirit to Achieve Wholeness, Harmony, and Purpose

Dossier
Play to Live (print/pdf only)
- cost-sharing (cost-shar·ing)
- The amount of costs insurance companies “share” with you (i.e., make you pay), to ensure that you have “skin in the game.”
Canon Fodder
The Private Option
A growing industry has a simple message to the victims of the US medical system — heal thyself.
Cultural Capital
Eileen Jones for President

Red Channels
George Bailey’s Shrinkage
It’s a Wonderful Life of lowered expectations.
Beyond a Boundary
Is It Okay to Watch Football?
That’s an individual choice. But imposing boycotts from the outside isn’t how politics works.
Bass & Superstructure
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
Bass & Superstructure
Obamacare and the End of Culture
Enjoy the soothing sounds of our national id.
Model Consumers

Obamacare tried to fix the health system one consumer choice at a time. No wonder it failed.
The Tumbrel
Negativity: Bad for Your Health, Good for the Soul

Thermidor
A Counterrevolution in Progress
Piece by piece, conservatives have dismantled US abortion rights.
Versailles
Rich People Kill Themselves
Today, the rich have access to the finest medical treatments backed up by the most rigorous science. Some of them decide to take mushroom elixirs instead.
Leftovers
Don’t Forget Your Copay

The Dustbin
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Popular Front
The Unions and the Movement
Through organizing around Medicare for All, unions can not only save millions of Americans, they can save themselves.
Popular Front
A Permanent Infrastructure
The demand for Medicare for All should become a litmus test for elected officials.
Means & Ends
Our Annual Physical
Everything’s fine but our wallet.