The Progressive Caucus co-chair authored the House Medicare for All bill. She’s frustrated that Democrats are attacking the concept of universal health care for political advantage.
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Marijuana Legalization Plan Shows Sanders Is No Socialist
His proposal seeks to create a class of marijuana small-business owners, rather than nationalizing the industry and forwarding the benefits to victims of marijuana prohibition.
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How Warren Should Pay for Medicare for All
If the presidential candidate wants to avoid middle-class tax increases, she should vow to drastically push down health care provider prices.
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How the Drug Industry Sacrifices Children With Cancer
The outrageous, contrived shortage of one of the most widely used generic cancer drugs, vincristine, reflects multiple policy failures.
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Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico Have Staged a Protest. These Are the Conditions They Endure.
In refugee-style camps from Matamoros to Tijuana, hundreds of asylum seekers are forced to wait under the Remain in Mexico policy—with dangerous implications for public health.
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This Pharma-Backed Astroturf Group Wants to Keep Your Drug Prices High
The Coalition Against Socialized Medicine, a project of the American Conservative Union, is advertising on Politico Playbook this week.
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How Private Equity Makes You Sicker
Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.
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Big Tobacco Lobbied to Save Vaping. Now It Controls the Leading E-Cigarette Company.
Altria lobbying helped strike down a ban on flavored vaping liquids. Later it bought into Juul.
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Private Equity Chases Ambulances
Investment firms have bought up emergency medical service companies, squeezing soaring profits from vulnerable patients.
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Cannabis, the Bipartisan Wonder Drug
Senate Republicans say impeachment will stop legislative progress. But the House embraced a bipartisan measure this week designed to give marijuana businesses unfettered banking access. Will the Senate back it?
