Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.
Only Medicare has the proven ability to control costs.
The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block.
The Republican governor signed a bill curbing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, months after voters approved the program.
Democratic candidates have exposed the outlandish lies by Trump and numerous Republicans pretending to defend the sick. But the inconvenient truth is that even with the ACA insurance companies have found numerous ways to skirt the law.
Donald Trump sued by 18 states for ending key Obamacare payments with executive order.
Move to end subsidies for lower-income customers 'breathtakingly reckless', says New York's attorney general
On the key point of who “owns” health care, 60 percent of respondents in the Kaiser poll said it was Trump and Republicans and 28 percent said it was Obama and Democrats.
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.
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