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• 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”
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  Baker: The Wonderful World of Free Market Drugs

  The first and most basic point is that in nearly all cases drugs would be cheap. Drugs are very rarely expensive to manufacture
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  Early: Trump Launches D-Day Assault on Veterans Care

  Trump’s “counter-revolution” in veterans’ care will divert billions of dollars from a national healthcare system uniquely equipped to serve the poor and working-class veterans who qualify for VHA coverage
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  Harris: Liberate Medicine from the Profiteers

  From Reproductive Rights to the Opioid Crisis and More, the Promise of Single Payer
• Anderson: America Needs a Long-Term Care Program for Seniors

  By 2035, seniors will outnumber children. A new plan in Washington state shows how we can care for them — and for their caretakers
• Johnson: 200+ Economists Send Letter to Congress Endorsing Medicare for All

  "The time is now to create a universal, single-payer, Medicare for All healthcare system in the United States," the economists wrote
• Robinson: 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law

  Interview with Dr. Yashica Robinson, the medical director of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, one of only three clinics left in the state that offer patients abortion services
• Kliff: Medical Madness

  A Mother's Choice Between a Child's Care and Bankruptcy
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  Baker: Getting to Medicare for All

  If the cost of health care inputs in the U.S. were in line with other wealthy countries, the government would already be paying almost enough to cover the cost of Medicare for All
• Gologorsky: To Be Sick and Not Rich

  The Nightmare of Medical Care in America
• Burger, and Zenei Cortez: Nurses Tell Big Pharma: Put Patients Over Profits

  "People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country."
• Chow: Time for Big Pharma to stop hiding behind “R&D”

  Campaigners are pushing moves to challenge the secrecy and broken model of drug pricing. But will governments have the political will to back them, and make life-saving medicines affordable for all?
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  Rosenberg: Beware the Drug Industry’s Lucrative GMO Drugs

  People worried about thinning bones can do many things besides taking Pharma's drugs that cost thousands a year and have dangerous side effects
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  Grim: The First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing Was Strangely Collegial

  The notion that an employer-based health care system is still the core solution for health care is dead and gone
• Omar: “It Is About Time”

  Interview on a variety of topics
• Barkan: I’m Dying: No More Half Measures. Only Medicare for All

  "Some people argue that although Medicare for All is a great idea, we need to move slowly to get there. But I needed Medicare for All yesterday. Millions of people need it today. The time to pass this law is now."
• Smith: Lies, Damn Lies, and Abortion

  In a race to see who can be first to directly challenge abortion rights before the high court, their proxies in state houses across the country gleefully file legislation that can only be described as draconian
• Wen: Trump’s “Pro-Life” Agenda Is Killing Thousands

  State Laws Threaten to Ban Abortion