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Coronavirus: Hospitals with huge reserves got government...
The New York Times reports that some of the wealthiest hospitals in the US received huge amounts of...
Coronavirus and hospital bills: Medicare v. private health...
Joseph Goldstein reports for the New York Times on a patient with COVID-19 who was hospitalized for...
Disparities in health stem from inequities in housing...
Disparities in health and health care outcomes are a result of inequities in housing, education...
Coronavirus and Congress: How to help older workers
The novel coronavirus has hit Americans hard. And, it has hit older workers especially hard. Not...
Coronavirus: Conservatives planning to slash Social Security
Just below the surface of the crises currently engulfing the nation is a debate over Social...
For our collective health, racism must be destroyed
I join the vast majority of Americans in condemning the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the...
Coronavirus: Republicans in Congress side with Pharma...
You would like to think that everyone in Congress would stand behind basic principles laid out by...
Coronavirus: Lawmakers ignore horrific number of nursing home...
David Dayen writes for The American Prospect on the horrific number of deaths at nursing homes...
Coronavirus: Why aren’t we talking about Medicare for all?
Helaine Olen asks in a Washington Post opinion piece how it is that we can be in a pandemic and not...