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Health Care

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For Transgender Patients, a Growing Fight Over Health Coverage
Trans Americans living in the grey area of bureaucracy are unable to get the coverage they need as healthcare coverage shifts across the country.

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Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy
Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …

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ACA’s Bungled Rollout Aside, Government Health Insurance Works
We need expanded and improved Medicare-for-All. And we need to vote any politician who won't advance us toward that goal out of office.

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ObamaCare

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Tea Party’s War Memorial Rally Was Another “Let Him Die!” Moment
Why is the tea party rallying over a closed memorial when so many people are suffering, asks Joshua Holland.

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The Right’s Obamacare Rhetoric Is Completely Detached From Reality
The old saying that u2018you're welcome to your own opinions but not your own facts' seems quaint in today's political environment.

The Standoff: The House and Obama
They're crazy too. Iu2019m going to shoot you. That will be the method.

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The Reality of the Affordable Care Act
While Republicans were throwing their silly tantrum, Obamacare became a fact. There is no turning back.

Noam Chomsky | On Shutdown, Waning US Influence, Syrian Showdown
Noam Chomsky gives his perspective on the US government shutdown, the Syrian civil war, capitalist reform in South America and more in a Truthout interview.

Bill Moyers: On the Sabotage of Democracy
Bill Moyers shares his own thoughts on the shutdown, and the resulting sabotage of democracy.