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Medicaid Survived the Health Care Battle — Now Let’s Give It to Everyone
We should ditch employer-provided insurance. Administrative costs for Medicaid are nearly half of the cost of private sector plans. Yes, half.
Lessons We Can Learn From the Fight to Create Medicare
Yes, our health system is broken, but broken systems can be fixed — not easily, but they can be fixed.
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Noam Chomsky on How the United States Developed Such a Scandalous Health System
Noam Chomsky discusses the historical and political factors that have created and maintained the US health care system.
Football, the American Tragedy: Public Ignorance Persists on a Major Health Crisis
There's no way to make football “safe,” but many choose to believe NFL propaganda.
Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act
With Congressional efforts in limbo, the Trump Administration seems to be going a step further than “letting” Obamacare fail.
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Everyone Deserves Care: Insisting on Compassion in the Face of Congressional Cruelty
The best measure of a society is its compassion, and our tax dollars should reflect that.
Now That Skinny Repeal Has Been Squashed, What’s Next for Health Care Activists?
Now that we have the lived experience of collective power, we can take this momentum and move forward, says Mari Cordes.
The Senate’s Sickening Health Care Fiasco
The health care crisis will persist despite the collapse of the Republicans' anti-Obamacare crusade.
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Trump Threatens to Attack Health Coverage of Congress Members and Low-Income People
In a new tweet-burst, Trump threatens to cut off health care for Congress and staffers.
How Civil Disobedience Helped Kill Trumpcare — at Least for Now
The tireless activists who have been engaging in direct action deserve credit for killing the latest round of Trumpcare.