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Health Care
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Where’s the Outrage Over Our Failed Health Care System?
What we are witnessing is a massive failure of public policy that is not permitted in any other wealthy country.
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Detroit Residents on Bankruptcy – We Have No Democracy!
More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million black residents now live under rule by unelected emergency managers.
ALEC’s Attempts to Thwart Obamacare
Wendell Potter is interviewed about ALECu2019s efforts to influence the health care debate.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Another Key Provision of Obamacare Meant to Protect Consumers Is Being Delayed, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Obama Administration is holding off on instituting out-of-pocket expense limits; North Carolina's Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed our nation's most restrictive voter …
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When a Political Party Goes Off the Deep End
Paul Krugman: The madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time.
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Five Shameful Ways the US Is Leading the World
The US leads the world in obesity, health care spending, energy use per person, defense spending, and is the most expensive place in the world to have a baby.
Obama Negotiates Cuts to Medicare as the Program Reaches Its 48th Anniversary
Last week marked the 48th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare.
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Southern Leaders Opt to Exclude 2.7 Million From Health Care
In the Deep South and Florida, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down the funding to expand Medicaid coverage.
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Conservative Policies are Driving Americans to Suicide…
The very same austerity policies that Republicans in Washington are constantly pushing on us are the same policies that are driving Americans to kill themselves.
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Worldwide Support Grows for Iraq Human Rights Hearing
An international group of organizations is fighting to instruct the United States to provide accountability and reparations for the Iraq War.