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The fraudulent work requirement meme
The GOP leadership keeps trumpeting work requirements and fraud when asked where they'll find $880 billion in cuts to health care programs. That's…
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If only the GOP was more like Willie Sutton
If they insist on stealing from health care to pay for renewing tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy, they should go where the money is -- in…
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It's mostly overutilization, stupid
The first study from a massive new database reclaims old ground in the long-running debate over the roots of higher health care spending in the U.S.
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The GOP's war against (their) states
The huge Medicaid cuts included in the House Budget Committee's spending blueprint will hit hardest in states that voted for Donald Trump.
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The coming recession
Higher tariffs, rising inflation, slashed government spending, more uninsured -- what could possibly go wrong?
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The war on health science
Sharp cutbacks to NIH "indirect" research support and at EPA will sharply reduce basic health science research and drive major universities further into…
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Making America (and the world) unhealthy again
States with high birth rates will get more highway money. Quitting WHO, cancelling PEPFAR will remove the U.S. from the global AIDS fight.
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Tariffs will drive prices higher on Rx drugs, our #1 import
Medical devices and equipment would also see major price spikes when new levees are imposed on imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China
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January 2025

Taking the hypocritic oath
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers one flip-flop after another on his way to becoming the next Health and Human Services Secretary
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Fraud fight in jeopardy
Trump's illegal firing of inspectors general threatens to undermine efforts to combat thievery by health care providers.
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Inequality drives U.S.’s lagging longevity
“One’s life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, and one’s racial and ethnic…
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Obesity: Disease or surrogate marker?
People get sick and die from the diseases triggered by obesity, not from obesity itself. Studying outcomes from the use of GLP-1s should also be on the…
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