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VA Scandal: Is Obama’s Whistleblower Button Reset?
After the VA scandal of manipulating appointments for health care access to our veterans is "resolved," will the first causality be the VA whistleblowers who have gone public?
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
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Piketty in Elysium
If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.
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Free Markets Are Not Always the Best Medicine
In the case of health care, we know that all the assumptions behind free market optimality are grossly violated.
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Memorial Day: For Vets, Too Many Delays and Not Enough Parades
This Memorial Day weekend is even more poignant as news continues to break of abuses and preventable deaths in the veterans medical system.
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Dead Babies and Utah’s Carbon Bomb
A sudden and extreme spike in neonatal mortality in Utah's rural Uinta Basin is most probably related to the toxic air pollution related to the fossil fuel drilling/fracking frenzy …
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Man Can’t Live on Cabbage Alone
Jill Richardson warns of a faulty allergy test that's gaining in popularity.
Single Payer Advocates: How Do We Defeat Health Care for Profit?
The US is one of few industrialized countries which doesn't offer universal healthcare to its citizens.
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American Lung Association Contradicts Its Own Mission
The public deserves to know the shameful truth about the American Lung Association.
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The GOP Death Panel
Republicans said once Obamacare was passed, government officials would get to ration health care, and as a result, have control over the life and death of millions of Americans.