This election year, in the midst of a global pandemic and with the Affordable Care Act about to be challenged for the third time before a Supreme Court that is in flux, it’s no surprise health care is a bigger issue than it has been in previous presidential elections.
Health care is key voter concern amid pandemic, changing Supreme Court
Iowa Catholics pray for workers at meat-packing plant who died of COVID-19
The safety and well-being of workers at meat-packing plants amid the coronavirus outbreak weigh heavily on the mind of Catholics in the Diocese of Davenport.
‘It spreads so fast,’ says Iowa Catholic; COVID-19 hits 15 family members
Fifteen family members tested positive for COVID-19 and three continued to be hospitalized as of late July.
American Indian communities feel COVID’s wrath
Few places in the U.S. have been more vulnerable to the wrath of the coronavirus than the sovereign tribal territories of the country’s first dwellers.
Advocates call attention to pandemic’s wrath on ‘essential’ farmworkers
The country’s supply of fruit and vegetables and other staples produced by the labor of farmworkers — many of them migrants — remains steady. Yet many of them toil without basic protections, their supporters say.
Ethicists, lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources
Amid pandemic, ethicists and lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources.