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An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year – more than twice the number in the Institute of Medicine’s frequently quoted report, “To Err is Human.”

A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP enrolls in a Bronze-level Obamacare health insurance plan

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Millions of Tea Party loyalists flee the United States, seeking “the American dream of liberty from health care.”

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'This is an issue of human survival.'

The market-based approach raises questions about who “owns” the forests in the first place.

Listen. That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract.