Millions are to lose Medicaid/CHIP benefits in the coming months as pre-pandemic income eligibility restrictions have returned.
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"I feel sick," said one physician. "Medicaid is not enough: we need seamless, lifelong universal care now."
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"The damage that private equity has wrought on Americans' healthcare from cradle to grave, simply for profit, has become a life-or-death situation."
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The report named stillbirths a “major public health concern” that the U.S. must address through research and prevention.
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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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If you weren't already nuts, you will be after working a few nights in the ICU.
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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