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• 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
• Team: 2019 medical debt statistics

  Medical debt is a growing problem in the U.S., with many Americans experiencing financial instability and even bankruptcy
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  Rosenberg: How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs

  McKinsey & Company’s “turbocharging” of opioid sales is just the tip of the iceberg. Most blockbuster drugs have been turbocharged in the same way
• Higginbotham: The 5 Biggest Lies Biden Is Telling About Medicare for All

  Joe Biden keeps lying about Medicare for All and won’t stop anytime soon — he has to, to sell his own Bidencare plan. But Medicare for All will always win on the merits
• Magee: How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

  Despite Funding Successful Socialized Medicine Abroad, the United States Opted for Profit
• Levine: A Groundbreaking Public Health Study

  A sane society would also be asking this: What is it about U.S. society that creates so many abusive and neglectful adults?
• Lindorff: The BS about Medicare-for-All Has to Stop!

  The clear advantage of government-provided over privately funded health care is why every other developed nation in the world, and many less developed ones, has some form of nationally-funded health care system
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  Gordon: The Personal Is Still Political

  And It’s Planetary, Too
• Horgan: Is Medicine Overrated?

  Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues
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  Barber: Where the movement to expand Medicaid stands

  North Carolina activists held 22 simultaneous vigils across the state earlier this month to remember the thousands of people who have suffered and died in the state for lack of health care
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  Street: MSDNC, Single Payer, and the Serenity Prayer

  As any sentient progressive should know, NBC and MSNBC (hereafter “MSDNC”) are media assets owned by and subservient to the United States capitalist and imperialist ruling class
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  Rasmus: Capital’s Latest Ideological Offensive

  Attacking Medicare for All, MMT, & Socialism
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  Shiva: Fake Food, Fake Meat

  Through real food we can decolonise our food cultures and our consciousness. We can remember that food is living and gives us life
• Owliaei: Medicare for All Would Save Money — And Lives

  The last thing on your mind during a ride to the ER should be: Is this going to bankrupt me?
• Menon: America’s Suicide Epidemic

  It’s Hitting Trump’s Base Hard
• and Policy Priorities: Trump Administration’s Harmful Changes to Medicaid

  President Trump has made clear that his goal remains to repeal the Affordable Care Act
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  Grim: Medicare for All

  Ways and Means Committee Chair Doesn’t Want Medicare-for-All Hearing to Mention “Medicare for All”