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Republicans Own This Health Care Debacle

by Nancy LeTourneau March 23, 2017January 9, 2022

They had decades to come up with an alternative, and it is still bad.

Health Care

The GOP Health Bill Promises “Access” And “Choice.” Don’t Believe It.

by William Berkson March 23, 2017January 9, 2022

Cutting subsidies means “choice” is no choice at all.

Magazine, March/April/May 2017

A Cure for High Health Care Costs

by Shannon Brownlee March 19, 2017January 9, 2022

Republican reform plans misdiagnose the problem. The solution is better care for the minority of patients who drive most of the spending.

Magazine, March/April/May 2017

How an Obscure Obamacare Provision Is Quietly Saving Lives, and Money, in Missouri

by Sheree Crute March 19, 2017January 9, 2022

Patients with mental as well as physical illnesses are hard to treat. The Show-Me State has figured out a better, cheaper way, using funds from Obamacare. Will Republicans in Washington kill it?

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Stealth Care: So Much for the “Pro-Life” Party

by D.R. Tucker March 19, 2017January 9, 2022

The man lies the way the rest of us eat, sleep and breathe. Listen to him, if you can stomach it. Then again, it might actually make your stomach sick, and then you’ll have to go to the hospital–and get ripped off, thanks to what this man’s party plans to do to our health care […]

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Antisocial Media: The Threat of Trump on Twitter

by D.R. Tucker March 18, 2017January 9, 2022

So what madness will he come up with next? It has been two weeks since he accused the former President of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower–an allegation he refused to retract yesterday during his news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Two weeks and no evidence. However, to his supporters, he doesn’t need any evidence; his […]

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