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Congress Urged to Cut Medicare Payments to Many Stand-Alone Emergency Rooms
The proposal would reduce Medicare payment rates by 30 percent.
Let’s Go All-In on Home Care for All
Let's go beyond resistance to build the society we want.
Sanders’s Bill Would Hold Big Pharma Executives Behind Opioid Crisis Accountable
“Pharmaceutical companies lied about the addictive impacts of opioids they manufactured,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said, taking aim at corporate impunity.
Patient Advocacy Groups Take in Millions From Drugmakers. Is There a Payback?
A new database tallies money from Big Pharma to patient groups.
Medicaid Is Helping to Combat the Opioid Crisis, Despite Trump’s Attacks
Medicaid is expanding addiction treatment.
Hospitals Are Leaving Rural America. Rural Americans Are Staying Put.
Seventy-seven percent of rural US counties are considered “Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas.”
New Abortion Law Requires Doctors to Keep Records that Can Follow Patients Through Life
The new Indiana law will burden women with lifelong stigma.
How the Wireless Industry Convinced the Public Cellphones Are Safe and Cherry-Picked Research on Risks
The Nation's Mark Dowie discusses more.
A Death in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Reinforces a Small Town’s Fears of Industry Impacts
Helping the residents of St. James relocate seems more feasible than assuring them that the air they are breathing is clean.
Majority of Voters Say Lowering Drug Prices Should Be Congress’s Top Priority
A wealthy philanthropist is pushing free-market reforms.