By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research A few years ago, a minor medical problem took me to the Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. While I was being treated, I asked the doctor, a kindly older man, if the hospital had been built in association with a German missionary organisation, given its […]
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A World Fragmented by Inequality.
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
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Despite the lack of universal healthcare coverage in the US, the country spends significantly more on healthcare related costs than comparable countries.
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The Economic Policy Institute details how "abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation."
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Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.
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