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Hopkins Halts Program After Investigation Finds Docs Denied Disability Benefits for Miners With Black Lung
World-renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine forced to suspend program after investigation finds one doctor reviewed 1,500 cases and never found an instance of black lung, denying coal miners disability benefits.
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Forget the Faulty Website: GOP Uses Obamacare Hearing to Whine About Abortion Instead
So far the failures of Healthcare.gov have been public and embarrassing, bandied about by Republican politicians who opposed health care reform from the start.
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So, About Those Cancellation Letters…
It turns out that many of those cancellation letters were misleading, and failed to mention that customers could find better policies at lower prices on a healthcare exchange.
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Senate Moving Toward Bill to Ban Workplace Bias Against Gays
A long-stalled bill banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is likely to pass the Senate as early as this week.
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Federal Court Decision Doesn’t Just Limit Abortion: It Creates a Crisis for Women’s Health Care in Texas
Andrea Flynn: This is nothing short of a crisis situation.
Bill Moyers: Obamacare – The Right Wing’s Alamo
Bill takes on the Republican Party for their relentless attempts to kill the Affordable Care Act.
A Month in to Healthcare.gov, Real-Life Winners and Losers
While it may be too soon to tell, here is a tentative breakdown of who benefits most from the ACA and who loses most.
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Dr. Ben Carson “Jumps Jim Crow“
Renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson says the Affordable Care Act is the worst thing to happen to America since slavery. Dr. Wilmer Leon begs to differ.
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Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History
Health care is a human right, and it is at the center of the conflict of our times, the battle between the people and corporate interests.
Black Panthers’ Fight For Free Health Care Documented in New Book
Alondra Nelson's book