A hospital CEO says looming Medicaid reductions threaten vulnerable residents and the state’s health system.
Health & Social Policy
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Can You Support Medicare for All and Take Money From Big Pharma?
Diana DeGette, a longtime Colorado congressional incumbent, has received half a million in donations from pharmaceutical company PACs.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
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Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care
Patients are caught in the middle of a corporate money grab and lawmakers who refuse to regulate.
Posted inLaw and Justice
History Teaches: Reproductive Rights and Equality
A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Bayer ‘Turns Over Every Stone’ to Stiff Roundup Cancer Victims
An executive order signed by President Trump may further shield the company from legal liability.
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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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What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?
Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
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GOP Food Stamp Work Requirements Hit Just as Jobs Dry Up
Millions of people will lose food stamps, according to early estimates.
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Mom, Kids, and Nowhere to Go
Family homelessness is spiking just as the Trump administration rolls back social services.