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• Cohen: Seven Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Biases

  Bias is stark when journalists obsess on the estimated cost of reform while ignoring the estimated cost of the status quo
• Koshgarian: Yes, We Can Cut the Pentagon to Pay for Medicare for All

  The truth is that the reality of Medicare for All could actually save money compared to the current system, if deeper cost savings could be achieved
• Gregory: Sowing division, reaping lives

  It’s textbook Institutional Racism. Did Trump say out loud, “I’m going...
• Lerner: The War on the War on Cancer

  Trump’s Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People
• Rosen: Despair in America

  The Unspoken Issue of the 2020 Election
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  Harris: Spray Now, Ask Questions Later

  Over the course of time industrial capitalism has exposed humans to leaded gasoline, asbestos, cigarettes, DDT, smog, toxic chemicals in water and food, and fossil fuel pollution that now threatens to denigrate the climate to the point of no return
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  Rosenberg: New Year’s Resolutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry

  We admit that pricing drugs at $52,321.80 a month (Actimmune), $42,570 a month (Chenoda) or $87,800 for a course of treatment (Harvoni) is extortion. Frankly we're amazed we have gotten away with it.
• Hartmann: Bolivia’s Plurinational Healthcare Revolution Will Not Be Defeated

  Under the Morales administration, Indigenous healthcare beliefs and practices stepped out from long shadows cast by colonialism and racism. Those achievements are now under threat
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  Hightower: Who’s Afraid of Medicare for All?

  Not ordinary Democrats or independents — just insurance companies, lobbyists, and old-line politicians
• Oram: Dollar Meals and Diabetes

  Logan County is ground zero for another battle—the struggle to survive in a region with the highest rates of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in the country
• Gregory: Impeachment (and removal): Good for public health

  Funding for mental health care for military members is woefully inadequate--in an era when Trump is radically increasing funding for more nuclear weapons--the ultimate threat ever made to public health
• Lord: Health Care and ‘Head Taxes’: An Unhealthy Combination

  We need to fix the health care system that has Joe Six-Pack paying the same basic tax as Jeff Bezos
• Koshgarian: Medicare for All, or Endless War?

  We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.
• Holden: Tens of Thousands of Deaths Linked to Weak US Air Pollution Rules

  Researchers linked nine causes of death with a certain type pollution when reviewing medical records of deceased veterans
• Kramer: A 12-Step Program to Opioid Justice

  Finding Peace Amid the New Opium Wars
• and Holly Otterbein: Bernie Sanders Wins Endorsement of Nurses’ Union

  Bernie Sanders is, and has been, leading on Medicare for All through his advocacy and Senate legislation”
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  De Luna Navarro: Undocumented Immigrant Enforcement Policies Drive Public Mental Health Crisis

  Imagine running away from a lion all your life — that's how 11 million undocumented immigrants feel today, and it takes a toll on their mental health
• Conley: ‘Dystopian’

  Reproductive Rights Advocates Decry California Woman's Murder Charge Over Her Stillborn Baby
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  Early: “Other Than Honorable?”

  Veterans With “Bad Paper” Seek Long Overdue Benefits
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  Dayen: Warren’s Medicare for All Plan

  The deeply detailed proposal cuts health care costs and finds other revenues, saving ordinary Americans $11 trillion in premiums and deductibles