Health Insurance Archives

Labor

Gig workers aren’t getting the healthcare they were promised

Garrett Leahy - April 29, 2021

Survey shows that most rideshare and delivery drivers are unable to access the benefits under Prop. 22

COVID

Moscone vaccination site is fast and efficient

Marke B. - March 16, 2021

Downtown site distributes 6000 COVID shots per day, but there's no reason to be daunted by smooth process

News + Politics

Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street

Tim Redmond - December 14, 2020

Breaking the law repeatedly, enabling thousands of evictions, ducking your taxes, overturning state labor codes, and abusing your workers seems to be a recipe...

Examined Life

Examined Life: Being human at a time like this

Karen Macklin - October 28, 2020

The future of our country may hang in the balance, but our humanity need not

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t worry, he said, COVID’s ‘Totally Under Control’

Dennis Harvey - October 12, 2020

A new doc parses the US pandemic response catastrophe. Plus: Driving While Black, more

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

Labor

Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees

Garrett Leahy - August 10, 2020

San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent...

Culture

Generations of activism: Checking in with Cleve Jones

Joshua Rotter - June 18, 2020

The LGBTQ community has already survived the tragic loss of Harvey Milk, the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the AIDS pandemic, and decades...

COVID

How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID

Reese Erlich - May 28, 2020

One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Trump v. Biden on foreign policy

Reese Erlich - May 8, 2020

We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better? Trump promised to stop America's endless...

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