Medicare for All without tackling the extreme consolidation in health care would just funnel money to corporate behemoths, a new report states.
Affordable Care Act
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The Big Beautiful Bill’s Market-Based Health Care Delusion
The Rural Health Transformation Program asks states to build market-style reforms in places where health care markets often do not exist.
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Trump Funding Cuts Endangering City and Rural Hospitals Alike
A year after Trump ripped $1 trillion out of the American health care system, hundreds of hospitals have closed and millions of people are without health insurance. The majority are in urban areas.
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Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
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Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.
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GOP War on Health Care Destroying Hospitals at Home and Abroad
More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.
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Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake ‘death panels’ that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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The Cost of Dying and the Cost of Living
The ICE debacle will continue to dominate the news, checkmating Trump’s usual strategy of changing the subject by wreaking new havoc or making new false promises.
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Wanted: More Republicans Who Value the Republic
The scattered efforts by members of Trump’s own party to slow him down are a bare beginning of what’s needed.
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Republicans Reject Trump on Numerous Congressional Votes
In the House and Senate, the Trump position was snubbed. The impact isn’t definitive, but the trend is unmistakable.