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Health care gets heated on Night 2 of the Democratic presidential debate
Sanders and Harris say they support abolishing private insurance under a single-payer health care system.
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‘Medicare for All’ emerges as early divide in first Democratic debate
Health care dominated early on June 26, with candidates using questions about the economy to take aim at pharmaceutical and insurance companies....
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CBO’s report on single-payer health care holds more questions than answers
The report comes as this once-lefty pipe dream becomes officially mainstream.
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As Sanders officially revives Medicare-for-all, Plan B for Democrats gains traction
“Medicare for America” offers a more incremental approach.
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Drug-pricing policies find new momentum as ‘a 2020 thing’
Spurred on by midterm election results that showed health care to be a deciding issue, lawmakers are pushing a bevy of new proposals and...
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Too high to drive: States grapple with setting limits on weed use behind wheel
It used to be the stuff of stoner comedies and “Just Say No” campaigns. Today, marijuana is becoming mainstream as voters across the country...
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5 things to know about Trump’s new ‘public charge’ immigration proposal
The proposal has spurred intense criticism from Democrats, anti-poverty activists, health care organizations, and immigrants’ rights advocates,...
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Some doctors are warming to single-payer medicine
A “youth uprising” in support of a single-payer health care system at this year’s AMA House of Delegates meeting speaks to a cultural shift in the...
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Federal court puts chill on Maryland drug price-gouging law
Similar price-gouging legislation has been introduced in at least 13 states this year, though none of those measures became law.
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5 ways White House can use its muscle to undercut Obamacare
The White House can take a number of behind-the-scenes steps to sabotage the exchanges and hasten their undoing. Already, it’s deploying some of...