Even as Trump attacks Medicaid, 2020 might be the year for expansion in North Carolina.
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There’s Another Way for Joe Biden to Expand Health Care: Medicare for Kids
New polling shows that the policy would be popular as well as smarter than an incremental expansion for the near-retired.
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Trump’s War on Veterans
How inaction, incompetence, and political aggression inflicted upon the VA an unprecedented vacancy crisis ahead of a global health pandemic
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The Men and Women Who Shrank the U.S. Ventilator Supply
A ‘killer acquisition’ merger in 2012 was waved through by the Federal Trade Commission, whose commissioners all went on to represent corporate America at top law firms.
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The Coming Division of Societies Into Stay-at-Home and Safe-to-Work Populations
We need to start thinking about how we get out of today’s social and economic shutdown.
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Congregating in the Time of Coronavirus
As communities battle COVID-19, social distancing will be the new normal. But can Americans give up parades, theater, and sporting events, possibly for weeks on end?
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The Coronavirus Crisis Demands Progressive Governance
Democrats need a much more wide-ranging economic and public-health response—and right away.
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The Trump Administration’s Contemptuous, Pro-Corporate Response to Coronavirus
The incompetence and greed of this administration could now literally cost many Americans their lives in a major public-health crisis.
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Surprise! You’re Still Getting That Unexpected Medical Bill
Why surprise billing legislation broke down, and how the coronavirus outbreak makes this unforgivable—and potentially deadly.
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Behind the Coronavirus Threat, a Middleman Destroying Prescription Drug Markets
Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have driven many of the generic drug manufacturers out of business, and pushed those remaining to locate factories in China, ground zero for the epidemic.
