While these ballot measures—calling for an increase in the minimum wage and for the state to accept federal funding to expand its Medicaid program—are non-binding, organizers hope that the results will reveal a clear preference of the electorate for both.
Health & Social Policy
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No Love for Obama as Election Day Approaches
He’s getting it from the left and the right. How much does he deserve?
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We Know College Feminists Care About Sexual Assault. But What About Abortion?
For many students attending schools in East and West Coast states, the legislative efforts to restrict abortion access commonly found in red states can seem quite distant from their own daily gender struggles.
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Have Republicans Found a Way to Insure Poor People and Still Hate Barack Obama?
We may have just reached a tipping point on Medicaid expansion.
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John Kasich Successfully Begins Two-Year Ritual of Self-Flagellation
As Mitt Romney showed, you can be infected with the Obamacare virus and win the GOP nomination, so long as you perform the proper cleansing rites.
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On Ebola, Like Terrorism, We Don’t Actually Have to Be Right 100 Percent of the Time
Imagine if we thought that way about the things that actually kill Americans every year.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Did Austerity Abet the Ebola Crisis?
A conversation with Terry O’Sullivan, an expert in the dynamics of catastrophic disease outbreaks, on the high human cost of cutbacks to public-health funding.
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Fear of Lawsuits Is Not Why We Spend So Much On Health Care
A new study shows that “defensive medicine” isn’t driving costs.
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Some Things More Likely to Kill You Than Ebola
You want to feel afraid? Here are some things to be afraid of.
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Abortion Without Apology: A Prescription for Getting the Pro-Choice Groove Back
Only by reclaiming abortion as a fundamental right and normal part of health care can the pro-choice movement hope to win, writes Katha Pollitt in a lively new book.
