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Health Care
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World’s Poorest Countries Allowed to Keep Copying Patent-Protected Drugs
Despite some criticisms, the WTO's decision to extend the waiver should be praised.
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Big Insurance’s Health-Care Scam for the Holidays
UnitedHealthcare may be claiming that it is losing money and threatening to leave the exchanges in the hope of getting more favorable regulation.
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Involuntary Hospitalization of Drug Users Is Bad Policy
A proposed Massachusetts law would violate drug users' due process rights and open the door for serious human rights abuses.
How Bobby Jindal Threw Reproductive Health Under the Bus for His Presidential Bid
Thousands of people in Louisiana rely on publicly funded reproductive health care. So why is Governor Jindal cutting off federal funding?
Lessons From the Ebola Epidemic
The highly prevalent disease with established predictions for alarming impacts on healthcare, lacks media coverage.
Campaigns for Paid Family and Medical Leave Gain Momentum, Despite GOP Resistance
Activists are pushing forward paid leave bills in several states, and Washington, DC, may soon offer 16 weeks of paid time off.
How the GOP and HMOs Undercut Obamacare’s Nonprofit Option, Leaving 500,000 Uninsured
With Obamacare relying on for-profit insurance companies to provide coverage, the market will find a way to squeeze out those who need it most.
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Isn’t Your Body More Important Than Your Home?
We should extend Medicare coverage to everyone, and start treating health care as a right.
Health Care “by the People”: An Interview With the Architect of Colorado’s Single-Payer Plan
Next year, residents will vote on replacing the Affordable Care Act with ColoradoCare, a single-payer plan that works like a cooperative.
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Will Colorado Become the First State to Implement Single-Payer Health Care?
Colorado citizens are about to put single-payer health care up to a vote on a 2016 statewide ballot referendum.