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Health Care
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Aetna Proves That Single-Payer Health Care Is the Only Way to Go
Citizens should organize for universal health care to replace the private insurers that cruelly put profit over people.
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Gaza’s Sick Pay Price of Blockade
Gaza has had chronic shortages of medicines as a result of political division between the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Israel's siege.
Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime Is Targeting Syrian Physicians
In his piece for the New Yorker, journalist Ben Taub profiles some of the underground community of health providers.
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If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go
Offenders, who have aged out of crime, are the fastest growing population in prisons.
The Weak and Defeatist Democratic Platform on Health Care
The DNC committee voted down an amendment to include single-payer health care in the platform.
Can Overuse of Health Care Be Managed by Giving Consumers More Choice and Responsibility?
After six years, the Affordable Care Act has failed to adequately rein in costs or prices.
Pro-Fracking, Pro-Colonialism, Anti-Single Payer: Democratic Party Platform Disappoints
Progressives vow to “take the fight to Philadelphia” and battle for stronger platform at Democratic Party convention.
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Monsanto, Bayer and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Critics note that of the hundreds of millions in tax revenues that AUMA is expected to generate, not a penny will go to the California general fund.
A Brief Guide for Reading About Paulette Leaphart (Especially if You’re White)
Ask yourself how you might see her story differently if she were white. Just in case.
Feed Me, Pharma: More Evidence That Industry Meals Are Linked to Costlier Prescribing
A third study shows an association between physician drug choices and their interactions with the pharmaceutical industry.