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Health Care

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What the Right Gets Right About Abortion and the Left Doesn’t Get
The most determined abortion opponents will say or do almost anything in the service of their cause: Distortion, deception, manipulation, intimidation, even murder.

Mental Health Movement Resists Chicago Austerity Measures
Chicago Shuts Down 6 of the Cityu2019s 12 public mental health centers, moves towards privatization of services.

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The Price of Democracy
There is one arena in which the United States is a world-class spender where youu2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would argue that we get world-class results for …

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Lobby Responsibly
The big beer brewers often admonish us imbibers of their products to

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Democrat to Offer a “Lifeline” for Single-Payer Healthcare
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds theyu2019re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a …

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Pennsylvania Seeks to “Reprioritize” Funding Away From Planned Parenthood
Anti-choice politicians in the state of Pennsylvania are attempting to change the way family planning and health care funds for low income women are allocated, putting Planned Parenthood affiliates …

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The Ills of Money-Driven Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, nine medical specialty societies released a list of 45 medical tests and procedures they believed are significantly overused. On the heels of this announcement …

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Feeding Obesity
Attention foodies: There's a new craze in Cuisine World, and it's going 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the much-publicized healthy-eating movement. It has nothing to do with …

Occupying Different Worlds: NATO and Its Citizens
Author Michael Hastings: The takeaway I got from the protesters was that this money could be better spent at home than on these different foreign policy adventures.

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Hundreds of Protesters Head to Chicago Mayor’s House to Oppose Health Clinic Closures
Hosting NATO will cost the city an estimated $55 million, and health advocates claim only $2-3 million is needed to keep these facilities open.