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Scholarly Mad Libs and Peer-Less Reviews
Scientific American published an investigative report documenting a new and curious form of scholarly publication fraud.
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Nation’s Largest Mental Health Worker Strike Takes Aim at Woeful Care by Kaiser Permanente
Mental health clinicians are set to strike across California Monday citing client overloads and hardships linked to suicides at Kaiser Permanente.
Why Did Swiss Voters Reject Single-Payer Health Care?
Supporters of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care system in the US were puzzled September 27 when Swiss voters rejected a reform proposal by 62 percent.
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Obamacare Counselor: “On the Surface, People Have Choices. But It’s a Complete Farce“
I'm basically an insurance broker, except I'm paid by the government instead of an insurance company. And I'm making a crappy non-profit wage.
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Lessons on the Struggle for Health Care as a Human Right
What happened in Vermont where a so-called single payer proposal died?
An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
This is injustice at its most fundamental level.
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US Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization
A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations.
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.