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Should we require providers to accept Medicaid?
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Florida and Texas should be ashamed, but what about New York and California?
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PNHP Board Elections 2021: Candidate Biographies
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CMS proposed rule: Paying the same for all office visits regardless of complexity
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For-profit hospitals adopt technology based on medical arms race rather than medical need
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Expansion of the Mexico City Policy
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Improved Medicare for All means something. Don’t dilute it!
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Stuart Butler on the 30 million uninsured
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