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Fran Quigley

Fran Quigley directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law.

 

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While two of every three Americans support unions and half of them would join a union if they had a chance, only 15% of American workers were union members in 2020. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Religious Groups Support Worker-Protecting PRO Act

"The PRO Act is essential in strengthening workers' basic right to organize: as such it is a covenant, a sacred trust among workers to improve their lives and working conditions. It deserves the support of all people of faith."

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Fulfilling Jesus' mandate could not be achieved by mere charity, Vida Dutton Scudder insisted, pushing back against some congregations' go-to response to poverty. Instead, she worked for a full restructuring of society around socialist principles. (Image: Vida Dutton Scudder, Circa 1890, Unknown Photographer, Public Domain, retrieved from Wiki­media Commons)

Celebrating Women Leaders of the Religious Socialism Movement

The movement to connect the socialist cause with religious beliefs in the human right to shelter, healthcare, and necessities owes a great debt to many women.

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Wilkes wants to call people to socialism just as he calls people to Jesus. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Socialist Preacher

"Socialism, or something like it, is the settled conclusion of a society that values democracy."

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"Kassem continues her work building support for Medicare for All, especially in communities of color that make up 59% of the nation’s uninsured," writes Quigley. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

Medicare for All Advocate Finds Universal Healthcare Mandates in Islam

"We were always taught...that the foundation of Islam is an obligation to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are met.”

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"Congress long ago created a 'Break Glass in Case of Emergency' box," explains Quigley. "It passed laws giving the federal government 'compulsory licensing' power. That means we can bypass the barriers of privately-held patents and allow the government to either directly manufacture the patented drugs or license someone else to manufacture them, usually with a limited fee paid to the patent-holder. That would guarantee we have the medicines we need at prices we can afford." (Image: Jon Sham/flickr/cc)

"Break Glass in Case of Emergency": We Must Break Pharma Monopolies to Lower Drug Prices

Existing law is crystal clear that the government can step in to lower drug prices in order to serve the public interest. 

Fran Quigley ·

Reclaim Public Medicine for Public Health

By taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, we can provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.

Dana Brown ·

Doctor holding N95 mask. (Photo: Via Shutterstock.)

"Every Healthcare Worker Is at Risk": A Physician Speaks Out on the Protective Equipment Shortage

 At this writing, President Trump appears to be resisting calls to use his federal powers to order private industry to increase production of necessary supplies, although the U.S. has done exactly that many times in wartime and during other crises.

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The fear and dysfunction associated with the coronavirus pandemic are unspeakably horrible, but they could spur the U.S. to once and for all eliminate the for-profit infection that sickens our health care system. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Coronavirus Shows It is Time to Remove the For-Profit Infection from U.S. Health Care

We have allowed the profit motive to drive our U.S. health care system, and it has driven us straight into a ditch.

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