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A Public Option Sustains Health Care Inequities. Medicare for All Tackles Them.
Under the public option model, health services would still be rationed based on the ability to pay.
1982 Report Warned of Radioactive Waste Threat From Oil and Gas Wells
This waste has been sold at Lowe’s, bottled as “AquaSalina” and marketed as a pet-safe way to de-ice roads.
Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions
Critic say converting federal funding for Medicaid into block grants will force cuts and reduce access to health care.
California Governor Proposes Bold Plan to Create State Generic Drug Label
The proposals would lower prescription drug costs, increase access to health coverage, and restrict and tax vaping.
Overdose Deaths Among People Over 55 Increased 17-Fold Between 1999 and 2017
Drug overdoses among boomers are at record-breaking levels -- and they're still rising.
Clinton Says Sanders Achieved “Nothing.” My Community Clinic Shows She’s Wrong.
Bernie Sanders’s push to expand community health centers has touched millions of lives, including mine.
In Historic Shift, US’s Second-Largest Physician Group Endorses Medicare for All
The American College of Physicians represents 159,000 doctors of internal medicine nationwide.
States Can’t Protect Themselves From the Harmful Effects of ACA Repeal
The Trump administration and 18 state attorneys general are asking courts to declare the entire ACA unconstitutional.
More States Are Reconsidering Medicaid Work Requirements
Several states have decided not to take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t meet work requirements.
Study: Medicare for All Could Save $600 Billion Annually on Bureaucratic Waste
Administrative costs amounted to 34.2 percent of national health expenditures in 2017.