(Natural News) In the United States, healthcare is not considered a right. If you seek medical attention, you must either pay out-of-pocket or follow the premium and deductible plan setup by your health insurance provider. A “Medicare-for-all” system, on the other hand, would cover all medical expenses for all citizens, as long as the government can […]

(Natural News) The never-ending cycle of side effects and adverse reactions that come from pharmaceutical drugs adds nearly half a trillion dollars to U.S. health care costs annually. A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego computed the true costs of pharmaceutical drugs. The real reason health insurance and medical care is […]

(Natural News) Once governed by Ronald Reagan, California is a prime example of the wretched failure of big government socialism. A high-tax, excessively regulated state — measures which primarily target law-abiding, middle-class workers and their families — in the death grip of virtue-signaling, far-left Democrats now has the highest poverty rate in America. From 1992 through 2015, the […]

(Natural News) We’ve heard a lot about the crime and deaths caused by the opioid crisis, but what about the financial impact of it? Many small towns are struggling to cover the costs associated with the epidemic, whether it’s emergency calls, coroner bills, courtrooms, or overcrowded prisons. Reuters recently examined the case of Ross County, […]

(Natural News) As hurricanes batter Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, a fiery hell burns on through the night in the western United States. The year 2017 is on pace to be the worst year for forest fires. The two main firefighting agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior, have spent more money […]

(Natural News) After halting a suicidal plan to provide endless, no-cost “universal” health care to everyone — including undocumented non-citizens — Collapsifornia lawmakers are now receiving death threats from voters who are incredibly angry that the “gubment” won’t give them more free stuff. Those voters have essentially decided to start issuing death threats to certain […]

(Natural News) They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but oftentimes being desperate leads to incredibly bad decisions. And the Democrat-controlled Illinois Legislature just made one. On Thursday the legislature finally passed a budget — its first since 2015 — by overriding Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto. The governor’s big hang-up with it? The […]

(Natural News) Not even the Illinois state lottery pool is safe from the financial collapse that is taking place in the Land of Lincoln. Illinois lottery winners are no longer guaranteed their winnings and will have to wait for lawmakers to pass a budget before there is the possibility that they can collect their cash. […]

(Natural News) Although suddenly everyone is aware of the looming financial collapse of the State of Illinois, almost no one is aware of why it’s actually happening. And the lying mainstream media — purveyors of fake news — won’t dare tell you the real truth: Illinois is being bankrupted by Big Pharma and the failed […]

(Natural News) For years Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has been warning Americans that many of the nation’s public sector pensions are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and are on a course to collapse. In 2013, Adams warned police officers, firefighters, teachers and others who work for government entities that […]