Check out how improved Medicare for All with progressive financing will affect your household medical costs.
This translates the recent Healthy California for All Commission findings
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Check out how improved Medicare for All with progressive financing will affect your household medical costs.
This translates the recent Healthy California for All Commission findings
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Summary: Independence Day is about celebrating freedom. Let’s contemplate the freedoms we can achieve with universal health insurance.
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By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.
On this day in 1776