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Congress Urged to Cut Medicare Payments to Many Stand-Alone Emergency Rooms
The proposal would reduce Medicare payment rates by 30 percent.
Democratic Think Tank Pushes Proposal Designed to Prevent Medicare for All
CAP is trying to co-opt the language of Medicare for All.
Home Care Agencies Often Deny Medicare Help to the Chronically Ill
Medicare does cover home care services for patients who qualify.
Fifty-One GOP Senators Just Voted to Cut $1.5 Trillion From Medicare and Medicaid to Give Super-Rich and Corporations a Tax Cut
The Republican budget, declared Sen. Sanders after its passage, “is not a bad bill. It's a horrific bill.”
Senator Sanders, We Cannot Begin Medicare for All From a Position of Compromise
The momentum is on the side of the movement for National Improved Medicare for All.
William Rivers Pitt | The GOP Wrecking Machine Takes Aim at the Debt Ceiling, Again
The song, as Led Zeppelin says, remains the same.
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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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.
Killing Trumpcare Before It Kills Us: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis on Connecting Social Issues to Build Resistance
The same people who are denying us health care are suppressing our vote and making us homeless, says Rev. Liz Theoharis.
Building People Power in Trump Country: West Virginia Coalitions Fight GOP Health Care Attacks
Organizer Gary Zuckett discusses building coalitions in West Virginia to fight regressive GOP policies in 2017 and beyond.