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Obamacare Is Only 'Exploding' in Red States

Dean Baker Los Angeles Times
Because Republicans have been so successful in keeping many of their residents from getting insurance, they think the country should trust them to overhaul heath care.

28,600 Lives Per Year

James Hamblin The Atlantic
How much mortality in the U.S. will increase if the Senate passes its health-care bill, according to a new analysis by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, titled “The Relationship of Health Insurance and Mortality: Is Lack of Insurance Deadly?”

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13 Men Tackle Trumpcare in Senate

Deirdre Fulton, Andrea Germanos Common Dreams
"When women aren't at the table, they're on the menu," says Planned Parenthood president

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Funding Agreement Protects Orphan Miner Health Care, But Doesn't Resolve Pension Issues

Tracie Mauriello Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Democrats and coal-country Republicans say miners are uniquely deserving because of an agreement in 1946, when the government seized mines and ended a strike by agreeing to provide health and pension benefits. Legislative leaders have agreed to the provisions as part of a $1 trillion government funding bill, and rank-and-file members are expected to approve it later this week.
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