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On Social Security, Medicare and taxes
Donald Trump never mentioned either program. Harris has a plan. Here are some details on what it might look like and why meaningful tax reform is long…
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Food inflation and insecurity
More than a quarter of the food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. Cities should recycle it to feed the hungry.
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An extremist agenda for health
Project 2025's architect would severely restrict the government's ability to protect the nation's health. The one exception? Abortion and reproductive…
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How an AMA secret society sets physician prices
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It's still the prices, stupid
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A better way to curb Medicare Advantage upcoding
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How health insurers profit by hoarding your data
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Stinting on care, paying less
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Assessing blame for an American catastrophe
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HHS in a second Trump term
With the GOP platform offering little guidance on where a second Trump administration will take health care, one must look to his potential appointees…
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Don't take price controls off the table
In Medicare and Medicaid, administered prices are 40% below the private market. Antitrust enforcement would be hard pressed to match that record.
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Health care at risk
As Dems open their convention, the stakes in this year's election couldn't be higher. Access to reproductive rights, lower drug prices and affordable…
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What Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors taught us
Long-term monitoring of Japan's hibakusha documented the devastating long-term consequences of exposure to radioactive fallout.
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Strict gun control is popular
Unfortunately, public opinion doesn't matter when it comes to one of America's greatest public health threats.
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Masks, social distancing and vaccinations worked
A new study finds the states and localities that adopted the strictest policies to stop the spread of COVID-19 experienced the lowest death rates, even…
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Harris and health care
The vice president's nomination will put abortion rights, cost control and maintaining insurance coverage at the center of the fall campaign -- where…
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