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• Perez: Documents Reveal Hospital Industry Leading Fight Against Medicare for All

  Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight
• Appelbaum: How Private Equity Makes You Sicker

  Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering
• Himmelstein: The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care is a Poison Pill

  Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy
• Gordon: Health Care Worker Strikes Have Improved Patient Care

  When they do finally go public with their concerns, their actions often result in improvements to patient care
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  Owliaei: No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care

  As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
• Castillo: Patients’ rights have no borders

  Why US nurses have joined the fight against NHS privatization
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  Baker: Health Care: Premiums and Taxes

  The key issue here is that workers with employer-provided health care insurance are effectively already being taxed for their health care insurance
• Bruenig: Medicare for All Would Cut Poverty by Over 20 Percent

  A new report shows that 8 million of the nation’s 42.5 million poor people would not be poor if they did not have to pay medical out-of-pocket (MOOP) expenses like deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and self-payments
• Castillo: Patients’ rights have no borders

  As a US-friendly no-deal Brexit inches closer, the executive director of National Nurses United explains why US nurses have joined the fight against NHS privatisation
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  Lacy: PhRMA Funding a Think Tank to Derail Medicare for All

  PhRMA, which depends heavily on government patents and money for research and development, has teamed up with other health care interest groups to try to crush the movement for a single-payer system
• Nass: Why Legislatures are implementing vaccine mandates now

  Testimony to New Brunswick, CA Legislators
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  Baker: Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Are Driving Up Drug Prices

  Without monopolies, drugs are cheap to make, and there's no incentive to lie about their benefits and harms
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  Early: The VA as Workers’ Comp

  Why Socialized Medicine for Veterans is Worth Defending
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  Pizzigati: Reflections on the Opioid Epidemic

  What can we do to stop America's next horrific eruption of corporate greed?
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  Pizzigati: Big Pharma to Pay for Opioid Crisis

  Big Tobacco settlements didn't help those in need. How do you ensure that these settlements help people and communities, and how do you control corporate greed?
• Lurie: “This Ruling Is Huge”

  Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million for Fueling Opioid Epidemic
• Altman: Dear Politicians: Lower Drug Prices Now

  Our strategy is simple: mobilize millions of Americans across this country to stand up and demand that politicians choose a side, the American people or the pharmaceutical corporations
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  Cole: Conspiracy Theories Hiding Real Plot: Corporations against Health

  The sleight of hand here is to make us forget that Trump’s “Environmental Protection” Agency refused to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage in babies
• Facundo: What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago

  Imagine if a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be
• Altman: It’s Medicare’s Birthday

  Let’s Improve It and Give It to Everyone