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Cue Harry and Louise: Medicare for All vs. the Usual Suspects
For all its uncertainties, American life has its reassuring traditions: Fall brings football, spring brings baseball, and proposals for universal health insurance bring healthcare industry scare campaigns.
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If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start with Big Pharma
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis – so let's put a noose around them.
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What the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Plan Says About For-Profit Health Insurance
The three paragons of capitalist success have just made one of the strongest arguments yet in favor of single-payer healthcare.
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This Former Hedge Fund Guy is a One-Man Nonprofit Investigating Some of America’s Shadiest Companies
A crack investigative reporter for his one-man nonprofit, the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, Roddy Boyd broke the Valeant Pharmaceuticals story and exposed a high-profile hedge fund manager's ponzi scheme that led to his incarceration.
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As Sanders Prepared Medicare Bill, Health Care Lobbyists Bankrolled Senate Democrats
Corporate lobbyists for some of the nation’s major private insurers and drug companies poured huge sums of money into Senate Democrats’ fundraising accounts. Now, many of those lawmakers are refusing to back the Medicare bill.
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How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money
The new documentary "What the Health" shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit of profits in the meat and dairy and drug industries.
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Why Is America So Opposed to Universal Health Care?
While the rest of the developed world has largely accepted the government’s role in ensuring affordable health care, the U.S. remains stuck in an endless debate full of misinformation perpetuated by rich interest groups.
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Pharma Fight in California: The Next Phase in Bernie’s Revolution Has Already Begun
Proposition 61 could be a watershed moment in American health care, reforming drug-purchasing and stopping price-gouging by Big Pharma.
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Killing Us Softly: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
“Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient will skip acquiring an EpiPen. And someday they will need it in a life-threatening situation, and they won’t have it, and they will die.”
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As the War on Weed Winds Down, Will Monsanto Be the Big Winner?
With the cannabis industry predicted to generate over $13 billion by 2020, there should be little doubt that companies like Monsanto are simply waiting for Uncle Sam to remove the herb from its current Schedule I classification before getting into the business.
