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Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.

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Reform Health Care to Serve Patients, Not Corporate Medicine
The experiences of other wealthy nations show we can do this by expanding and improving Medicare to everyone.

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From the ER to the Courtroom: How Nonprofit Hospitals Are Seizing Patients’ Wages
One Missouri hospital has sued thousands of uninsured patients who couldn't pay for their care.

Shummy’s Surrender: Democratic Governor of Vermont Goes South on Single Payer
Top Vermont Democrats were actually not enthusiastic about providing tax-supported universal health care coverage

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Ten Bonus Health Benefits of Birth Control
Gone are the days when family planning meant crossed-fingers and carefully washed reusable condoms, or metal pessaries or worse.

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Mutated Flu Virus Could Signal More Hospitalizations, Deaths This Season
Although flu activity has been relatively mild in the US thus far, Influenza A viruses, known as H3N2, have been seen in most states.

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Benzene and Worker Cancers: “An American Tragedy“
Documents lay bare petrochemical industry's $36 million ‘research strategy’ on carcinogen.

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The Logic of Short Hospital Strikes
In any industry these days, turning a strike to workers' advantage takes creativity, since bosses hold so many of the cards legally and financially.

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Big Changes in Fine Print of Some 2015 Obamacare Plans
Consumers have until Dec. 15 to switch plans before they are automatically re-enrolled.

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Ebola-Like Public Health Crises Highlight Need for Improved Medicare-for-All Model, Failures of ACA For-Profit “Market-Driven” Insurance Model
Affordable Care Act: prescription for decreasing coverage, increasing cost.