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How Medicaid subsidizes employers
The drastic cuts to health care coverage in the One Big Ugly Bill will undermine the U.S. economy and make the workforce less productive.
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Hospitals' unseemly lobbying campaign
The hospital lobbyists pushing the Senate to adopt the House version of the One Big Ugly Bill are falling into a GOP trap.
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Podcast: "Donny's Death Panels"
This week, Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, explains how a little humor can help raise awareness about the devastating impact…
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Ending the Medicare Advantage advantage
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A quick note on the Medicare cuts
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The real freeloaders in our employer-based health insurance system
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The coming recession
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The GOP's war against (their) states
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Making America (and the world) unhealthy again
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Radical opacity
The new leadership at FDA unveils a program that could lead to rapid approval of new drugs without public input.
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Not telling it like it is
The press continues to obfuscate what's actually in the One Big Ugly Bill, especially when it comes to Medicaid work requirements.
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Merrill Goozner
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It's official! The rich get richer, the poor get poorer
And the upper middle class gets a tiny tax break under the One Big (Ugly) Bill.
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Merrill Goozner
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Medicare is in the GOP's crosshairs, too
While it hasn't made major headlines, the One Big Beautiful Bill contains major cuts to the program that provides health care for over 65 million…
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Defending democracy and health care
The weekend events in Los Angeles remind us that the fight to preserve the nation's inadequate social safety net is part of the broader fight to defend…
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Podcast: One mother's search for a cure
The new leadership at FDA seems open to loosening regulatory standards for the new genetic therapies for rare diseases. It's not the field's biggest…
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Under Trump, the future of research is in Asia
The regime's senseless attack on the U.S. science establishment will speed the shift to Chinese dominance.
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