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• Symborski: New York City nurses threatened to strike—and won

  What the Alliance had once sternly denied the nurses had been won
• Eidelson: Is the American Psychological Association Addicted to Militarism and War?

  When hijacked planes hit their targets on the morning of...
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  Baker: Medicare for All 64-Year-Olds

  While it is still quite far from becoming law in even an optimistic scenario, it is certainly now treated as serious political position
• Marans: Bernie Sanders Introduces New Medicare For All Bill

  He’s promising more benefits — and facing more opposition
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  Rosenberg: Consumer Drug Ads

  20 Years of Pushing Expensive Meds and Diseases People Probably Don’t Have
• Gordon: Gung Ho For Privatization

  Review of Anuradha Bhagwati’s Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience
• Brown: Let’s Take Health Care Off the Bargaining Table

  No other advanced industrialized country links health care to employment like the U.S. does
• Meier: Origins of the Opioid Epidemic

  Purdue Pharma Knew of OxyContin Abuse in 1996 But Covered It Up
• Levine: Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left

  Establishment psychiatry has historically been supported by the ruling elite in return for meeting the elite’s needs to maintain the societal hierarchy and political status quo
• Corcoran: WaPo’s ‘Hard-Line’ Stance Against Medicare for All

  What the Post describes as “hard-line” and “far left” is actually a very popular position
• Rosen: “Deaths of Despair”

  Trump and the White Working Class
• Sutherland: Teens Offered Path to Vaccination vs. Anti-Vax Parents

  As measles outbreaks continue across the country, Democrats in the New York state legislature have created a solution to the ever-increasing problem of uninformed parents creating unvaccinated children: Let the kids choose
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  Rosenberg: Drug Company Executives to Defend Their Prices on the Hill

  Pharma's shameless profit party is hard to miss
• Brooks: Nurses Prepare Strike over Patient Ratios

  Four hundred nurses attended the bargaining session where safe staffing ratios were discussed, and members had an opportunity to speak
• Willmsen: How The Sackler Family Allegedly Built An OxyContin Fortune

  While Purdue Pharma publicly denied its opioids were addictive, internally company officials were acknowledging it and devising a plan to profit off them even more, the complaint states
• Johnson: Debunking Industry Lies

  Analysis Shows Medicare for All Would Cut Costs, Boost Efficiency, and Save Lives
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  Baker: ‘Medicare for All’ is Not a Fantasy

  It is undeniable that the United States can afford the same guarantee of health care enjoyed by people in other wealthy countries. The question is whether we have the political commitment to bring it about
• Menon: Walling in the Opioid Crisis?

  There Is a Real National Emergency in America, It’s Just Not the Wall
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  Zeese: We can’t afford anything but single payer health care

  We need to hold dishonest billionaires accountable and tell the truth — we can afford National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA). The people are right. The billionaires are wrong
• Alperstein: The EPA Rule Change That Could Kill Thousands

  Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances. The EPA wants to make mercury and air toxics deadlier again. We can’t let that happen