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Health Care
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.
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How to Fix Environmental Woes in Buenos Aires Shantytown
As soon as you enter Villa Inflamable you taste and feel chemicals and dust particles in your throat, saliva and lungs.
Nonprofit Foundation Rakes in Cystic Fibrosis Drug Revenues
Rather than push for costs of medications to be lower for patients, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has an incentive to keep costs high.
House Bill on Medicaid Providers Would Limit Beneficiaries’ Access to Care
Limiting access to Planned Parenthood would likely increase unplanned pregnancies and raise state costs.
HIV Is Not a Murder Weapon: Racism and the Criminalization of AIDS
Advocates are working to challenge stigma and laws that treat HIV as a “weapon” and criminalize people living with it.
Bernie Sanders Wants to Spend $18 Trillion: So What?
The problem is that a spending figure, even one as big as $18 trillion, is meaningless on its own.