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• 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
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  Monbiot: Don’t Breathe

  Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
• Johnson: Democrats Announce First-Ever Hearings on Medicare for All

  "This will ensure that Medicare for All is part of the 2020 Democratic presidential platforms," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who will sponsor the House Medicare for All bill
• Brooks: Kaiser Clinicians Go on the Offensive for Patient Access

  “If we go on strike, it’s because the care we are providing our clients is below substandard.” “It’s barebones.”
• Pizzigati: Making Millions Misleading Cancer Patients

  Cancer is also helping some Americans become exceedingly rich. And these Americans will do most anything to keep their windfalls coming, even prey on the fragile psyches of the families cancer strikes
• Wadman: Trump admin quietly barred NIH scientists from acquiring fetal tissue

  The suspension, imposed this past September without a public announcement, came as the government launched a review of all fetal tissue research funded by the federal government
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  Sanders: Medicare for All, Green New Deal & the Stop BEZOS Act

  Interview on efforts to pass a Green New Deal, raise the minimum wage and protect Social Security
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  Greenwald: Addiction, Depression, and the Opioid Epidemic

  What Are They Telling Us?
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  Prashad: What’s keeping the world from ending AIDS

  There is virtually no outrage at the IMF policy framework that destroys the health-care infrastructure in the Global South
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  Rosenberg: Opioids for Depression?

  Not So Fast Says An FDA Advisory Committee
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  Rosenberg: Getting Dangerous, Expensive Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet

  A look at medical conflicts of interest
• Wright: The free market’s failures are fueling a growing health crisis

  And the consequences could send us back to the medical dark age
• Brooks: Hospitals Torch Safe Staffing Limits in Massachusetts

  The Massachusetts hospital lobby spent upwards of $30 million to drum up fear and confusion in a campaign that strongly resembled an anti-union drive
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  Baker: GOP’s Cheap Tricks on Preexisting Health Conditions

  The Republicans are doing everything they can to make it so that people with serious health problems pay more for their health insurance