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Health and Social Policy
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Getting Arrested for Opposing the Tax Bill
The Republican tax proposal, soon be signed into law, will particularly impact the health of people with disabilities.
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Single Payer? How About a Profit-Driven Single Provider?
The CVS-Aetna merger creates a price-setting behemoth for medications.
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How Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Campaign Got to Yes
Frustration with the status quo and a powerful GOTV campaign helped produce the country’s first Medicaid expansion directly decreed by the voters.
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Three Minutes with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards
The women’s reproductive-rights leader shares some thoughts on President Trump and community activism.
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Puerto Rico Devastation Could Lead to National Public Health Crisis
Some critical prescription drugs are only made on the island, and Hurricane Maria halted production at dozens of pharmaceutical factories.
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Graham-Cassidy: Republicans Kill Parents, Complain They’re Orphans
“Right now, 37 percent of the revenue from the Affordable Care Act goes to Americans in four states,” Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, coauthor of the Republicans’ last-gasp effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, said on Monday. Cassidy’s culprits—the four states at the center of this cosmic injustice—are California, New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland. […]
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The Health Insurance Quagmire: Notes for Next Time
After the Republican repeal effort fails, it’s time for Democrats to think bigger.
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FEMA Loophole Leaves Communities at Risk
A disaster-relief program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) promises greater flexibility in rebuilding damaged towns and cities, but instead often allows for the diversion of resources from those communities. FEMA’s Public Assistance Alternative Procedures pilot program, created by the 2013 Sandy Recovery Improvement Act, is designed to provide “substantially greater flexibility in use […]
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Q&A: Drug Addiction Is a Learning Disorder
And treating it punitively, Maia Szalavitz argues, is rooted in racism—not in science
