There’s another critical shortage of salt and water in a bag. Hurricane Helene is only the surface-level cause; it’s really about America refusing to learn the lessons of monopoly fragility.
Health and Social Policy
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AI Is Threatening the Social Safety Net
Here’s what policymakers should do.
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Red-State Abortion Tactics Push Into Deep-Blue Illinois
How pro-choice advocates in two cities moved to take on anti-abortion lawmakers
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Saving Wisconsin’s Publicly Owned Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.
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Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity?
A notorious health care looter claims a Senate investigation into his private equity–enabled hospital collapse is a superficial show trial. Did Gavin Newsom just prove him right?
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Family Providers Face Barriers to Adding Abortion Services
Malpractice insurance companies have piled on numerous restrictions and jacked up their rates. It’s become a new form of restricting access to abortion.
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An Epic Dystopia
How a near-monopoly gained control of most of the nation’s electronic medical records, to the detriment of medical practice and doctor morale
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How Walz Can Help Harris Woo Vet Voters
And just maybe save the VA
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FTC Sues PBMs for Jacking Up Insulin Prices
The case against Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx is the first against this element of the pharmaceutical transaction chain.
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‘Steward Health Are Health Care Terrorists’
A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.