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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.
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Talking Points
“Talking Points,” by Ted Rall.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Republicans Manage to Block Two Different Attempts to Extend Long-Term Unemployment Benefits, and More
On the one-year anniversary of the death of internet-activist Aaron Swartz, three judges in DC killed the internet.
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Anatomy of an Obamacare “Horror Story“
Texas daily went digging for victims of the ACA and Surprise! Reporter unearthed three Tea Partiers who hate the new law.
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Paul Krugman | The Republicans’ Obamacare Hypocrisy: A Mystery Solved
Paul Krugman: Republicans don't want to help the unfortunate. They'll propose diversionary tactics designed to stall real health reform.
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Medical Travel: If Bill Gates Wanted to Do Something Good for the World
Dean Baker: Suppose Bill Gates established an insurance company that gave people the option of getting some of their health care in other countries.
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Shipping Delays Prove That Sometimes a Glitch Is Just a Glitch
Right wing pundits were quick to pundits were quick to condemn HealthCare.gov's technical problems, but none of these people made similar claims about UPS or Amazon shortcomings.