The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.
Health and Social Policy
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Federal Funding Must Flow
With Medicaid at risk, state officials could help put the brakes on DOGE and the chaos generated in Washington, but only with some decisive pushback.
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The Onion of Kensington
The American dream collides with tragedy in a historic, largely immigrant community in Philadelphia that’s one of the epicenters of the nation’s fentanyl crisis.
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Trump’s Big Choice on Drug Prices
By following through on Biden’s Medicare price negotiation program, he can take credit for prescription reductions. But Big Pharma doesn’t want that to happen.
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UnitedHealth’s K Street Army
The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.
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A Private Equity Hospital Bankruptcy Gets a True-Crime Twist
Prospect Medical Holdings is the latest sordid tale of legalized hospital embezzlement killing patients and communities. But the judge assigned to its bankruptcy raises eyebrows in a good way.
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Suicide by Rental Truck: America Gets Another Violent Wake-Up Call From Vets in Distress
Twenty years of war has created tens of thousands of broken men and women.
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How the AMA Undermines Primary Care
Federal regulators, under Democrats and Republicans alike, help them do it.
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Abortion Care Faces an Uncertain Future in Washington, D.C.
Threats to home rule could shatter the city’s status as a safe haven.
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The VA’s Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.
