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Health Care
Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages
Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.
The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will Be the Future of Medicine
Few issues have become so intensely debated and politically charged as the need to reform the health care system.
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The Public-Private Profiteers
Health care isn't the first boon that President Obama tried to give us through a public-private partnership.
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Hidden Financial Ties Rattle Top Health Quality Group
It raises significant concerns about oversight of the burgeoning quality improvement industry.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 25 States Have Refused to Expand Medicaid, and More
Millions of Americans are now realizing that they're too poor to afford Obamacare - and it's all thanks to Republican lawmakers across the country, and more.
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Urban Gynecology Delivered With Compassion: Ellen Cohen’s “Laboring“
Ellen Cohen's “Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife” is an insightful description of the conditions and clashes endemic to American health care.
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Why Drug Prices Are Out of Control, or Money Well Spent by Big Pharma
Wonder why drug prices are skyrocketing? A primer on how lobbying works best to make people really rich.
Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients With Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Could a pair of headphones change the lives of millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia?
The ACA and America’s Health Care Mess
We can hope that the ACA's strengths and its failures will soon pave the way for a rational universal system such as single payer health care.
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Love It or Hate It, Obamacare’s Spurring Interest in the Pathology of Health Care
Even if ObamaCare never fully achieves its intended benefits, it has already had some unintended ones.