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Medicaid

Medicaid Programs Drowning in Backlog
With open enrollment over for private health insurance claims, states are struggling to process hundreds of thousands of Medicaid applications.

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The Conservative Death Panel
Millions of Americans are unable to afford life-saving health care, because Republicans would rather play politics than protect people's lives.

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Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder?
Republicans say that they're pro-life, but that's a bald-faced lie, because they refuse to let low-wage working Americans have access to life-saving Medicaid.

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Medicare for All
With government already providing health care for a third of the population, why not make it Medicare for all? This should be a battle cry for progressives, says sociologist …

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The Culling of the American Herd
A Harvard/CUNY report that predicted as many as 17,000 Americans may die as a result of some states refusing to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare has received little …

Lyndon Johnson’s Ambivalent Legacy
Author Peter Dreier defends his inclusion of LBJ in book celebrating social justice heroes, outlining the president's nearly unrivaled number of public reforms.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Hospitals Close as Georgia Continues to Block the Medicaid Expansion, and More
Another rural Georgia hospital is closing its doors as that state continues to block the Medicaid expansion, and more.

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The Real Illness Plaguing US Healthcare: Inequality
The lens of real estate and finance gives us an interesting look at how our healthcare system is part and parcel of an edifice that enables the rich to …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Economic Inequality Is a Major Threat to Human Progress, and More
85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom …

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A Modest Proposal, 2014
We need to swallow this planet and everything in it in order to fulfill our human destiny.