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Too Big To Heal

Helen Santoro, Joel Warner The Lever
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.

Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.

Meagan Day Convergence
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spe

Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson Informed Comment
Project 2025, framed by former Trump administration staffers and secretly endorsed by Trump himself, proposes changes in Medicare benefits that could destroy Medicare as we know it.

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Getting to Medicare for All

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
If people understand the issues and have given a president a clear mandate for universal Medicare, they have some ability to push recalcitrant senators and Congresspeople.

Voters Demand a Bolder and More Progressive Democratic Party

Marianne Dhenin Yes! Magazine
Anger among Democratic voters nationwide over the Trump administration’s agenda and Democrats’ unwillingness to act as a bulwark against its overreaches also points to a growing desire for alternatives to the old guard.

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Readers Comments: What's the Latest Grift, Foreign Gift, Emolument; Congress Silent on Gaza Nightmare; Year's Cost of Public Television or 6 Hours of Pentagon Bombs; U.S. Bandmember Arrested Before European Tour; Mass-Care Medicare for All Conference
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