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Cancer, Copays and the Cost of Staying Alive

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The Troubling Truth About Memory Care: What Families Need to Know

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Insurers Are Denying Patients Care. What Needs To Change?

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When Health Insurance Denies a Baby's Cancer Treatment

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Why Labor Unions Are Essential to Winning Medicare for All

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Labor Day: Why Every Union Negotiation Is Really About Health Care

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340B: The Drug Discount Patients May Never See

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In Debt and Desperate: The Hidden Cost of Getting Sick

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'Rationing by Inconvenience:' How Insurers Keep Patients From Care

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Health Coverage Denied? Appeal. You might win!

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What the New UCLA Report Reveals About California Single Payer

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California's Next Governor Could Transform Healthcare—or Gut It. Becerra vs. Hilton

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When Your Health Insurance Says 'No' to Your Doctor's Orders

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When Insurance Cuts Eating Disorder Care Too Soon

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We've accepted this healthcare system as normal. Should we?

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Breaking Free From America's Medical-Industrial Complex

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Why Nursing Home Residents Need the Essential Caregivers Act

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'No Way to Live': The Cost of Nursing Home Isolation

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Fighting From the Grave for the New York Health Act

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Mariana Pineda: Presente

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Why Canadians Don't Have to Fight Health Insurers

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The Truth About Canada's Healthcare Wait Times

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Too Poor for Insurance, Too Sick to Wait: America's Healthcare Trap

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UnitedHealth's Dangerous Takeover of U.S. Health Care

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Why the Same Drug Costs 3x More (And Who Decides)

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Designed to Fail: How Insurance Denials Really Work

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Why Employers Are 'Flying Blind' on Healthcare Costs

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The Health Insurance Black Box: Why Employer Healthcare Costs Keep Rising

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States Push Back Against Medicaid Managed Care

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The Middlemen Making Money Off Medicaid

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The Hidden Cost of Private Equity Hospital Buyouts

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Is private equity in health care killing us?

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Insured But Still Can't Afford Care? The Underinsured Crisis

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The Deadly Design of U.S. Health Care

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Why Insured Americans Still Need Charity Clinics

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The Real Cost of Health Insurance Nobody Talks About

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Medicare Advantage Is Breaking America's Promise to Seniors

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No real choice.' How Medicare Advantage fails seniors

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Is racism in health care still a problem in 2026? Absolutely.

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Revisiting America's racist - and deadly - legacy

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Inside California's Push for Guaranteed Healthcare

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Why More Americans Want Medicare for All

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Aging in place is hard. Could neighbors be an answer?

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The Caregiving Crisis Is Here - and America Isn't Ready

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The hidden forces behind skyrocketing health insurance costs

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'Widespread Panic:' Rising Premiums and Shrinking Subsidies Explained

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Love your Medicare Advantage plan? It does NOT love you back

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BS, Gaslighting & AI: Demystifying the health insurance denial process

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Profit, Prejudice, and the Price of Care

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When Insurers Play Doctor: How Corporate Greed Ties Physicians' Hands and Harms Patients

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Need care but lack insurance? Check out these free & low-cost options

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Survival strategies if you lose your health insurance

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Think Trump's Medicaid Cuts Won't Hit You? Think Again.

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Medicaid Saved My Mom's Life – But Trump Could End It for Millions

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The brutal dismantling of America's healthcare safety net

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Why Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is a Disaster for People with Disabilities

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Stealing our children's potential: The failure of lead poisoning policy

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From Healthy Infant to Lead Poisoned? One Family's Harrowing Journey

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Labor Day: How Trump's Policies Threaten Workers' Rights, Safety & Retirement

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The One Big Beautiful Bill? It's a Bitch!

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Can a united West Coast win single-payer?

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Had it with the health insurance racket? Know your options!

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The House Always Wins: Why One Woman Gave Up On U.S. Health Insurance

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When Doctors Suffer Too: The Hidden Crisis of Moral Injury in U.S. Healthcare

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Betrayal, Burnout & Moral Injury: Doctors and the Financialization of Medicine

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Can California beat the odds and ditch for-profit healthcare?

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Independence? Unless we get health care, it's a sham.

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Medicaid on the chopping block: What's at stake?

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Death by a thousand cuts: Trump's attacks on our health care

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Weaponizing health care: The Trump rule targeting young immigrants

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How Big Insurance Rigs the Rules - and What We Can Do About It

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We can save billions on health care — why won't Congress do it?

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Profits over patients - America's sickening healthcare system

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Sex Ed, Medicaid, & Abortion Access: A trio of policies worth fighting for

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Criminalizing Choice: The Deadly Cost of Denying Abortion

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Taking It to the Streets: National Rally Against Greed in Health Care

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National Day of Action: Single payer & the power of righteous fury

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How states 'trap' abortion clinics to shut them down

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Roe to Resistance: Keeping Abortion Legal in the Heartland

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How to Fight RFK Jr.'s Ambiguous Vaccine Agenda: Insights from Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

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RFK Jr.s' dangerous new power over America's public health

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Sláintecare: Could Ireland's Universal Healthcare Model Work in the U.S.?

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How Ireland is Fixing Its Healthcare System – And What the U.S. Can Learn

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The lasting impact of racism in medicine

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Segregation in health care: America's racist - and deadly - legacy

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Billionaires vs. Our Benefits: Who Really Wins With Social Security Cuts?

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Could Trump's GOP Budget Cuts Kill Medicaid? Breaking Down the $2.3 Trillion Threat

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How Many Must Die? America's Health Crisis

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Murder, Money & Medicine: The United Healthcare CEO Tragedy and America's Insurance Crisis

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Health Equity Now: Tackling Racism in Medicine with Dr. Uché Blackstock

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MLK Day Special: Dismantling Racism in Medicine

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Can veterans really get better care outside the VA?

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The sordid financialization of America's healthcare system

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A second look at the Indian Health Service: A broken promise?

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Will Project 2025 sink traditional Medicare?

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The tricks and traps of Medicare 'Disadvantage' plans

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Forsaken? The problem with for-profit health care

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Coverage denied: A doctor's fight to save her own baby

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Does Trump mean the end of Medicare for All?

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Taking stock: Health care in the wake of the 2024 elections