By Maggie Mills
Common Dreams, July 11, 2020
A recent study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare-for-All would prevent 68,000 deaths a year. These 68,000 deaths are
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By Maggie Mills
Common Dreams, July 11, 2020
A recent study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare-for-All would prevent 68,000 deaths a year. These 68,000 deaths are
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By Melissa Repko
CNBC, July 8, 2020
Walgreens Boots Alliance will soon have doctor offices inside of hundreds of its U.S. drugstores.
The pharmacy chain said Wednesday it
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Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality Health Care (Pages 28-37)
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We are going to at last build the health care system the American people have always deserved: One
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We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned according
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By Sharon Begley
STAT, July 7, 2020
You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at the top of a new
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The United States is the only developed nation unable to balance cost, efficacy and social good in setting prices.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
The New York Times, July
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Kaiser Health News/Associated Press, July 1, 2020
Local and state public health departments across the country work to ensure that people in their communities have healthy
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By Adrianna McIntyre, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Mary G. Findling, Eric C. Schneider
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5,
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Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care
By John Geyman, M.D.
From the Preface
We have to raise, and answer, who is health care for - for
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By Sayeh Nikpay, India Pungarcher, Austin Frakt
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5, October 2020
Published online June 19, 2020
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Through the 2000s,
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By Isaac Arnsdorf
ProPublica, June 12, 2020
In 2017, TeamHealth, the nation’s largest staffing firm for ER doctors, sued a small insurance company in Texas over a
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By Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.; Connor W. Boyle, B.A.; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA, June 22, 2020
The US health care system requires major changes