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November 6, 2019
Single-Payer Advocates Are Being Drawn Into the Wrong Debate
Warren's plan to pay for Medicare for All has sparked a conversation over how much we spend on health care, instead of how well we spend it.
November 5, 2019
Ady Barkan Is Running Out of Time to Speak
As his ALS intensifies, the prominent single-payer activist is finding new ways to influence the politics of health care.
October 31, 2019
Trump, Blackface, and Guns
Why Virginia’s off-off-year elections bode ill for the GOP in 2020.
October 28, 2019
The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Big Pharma has a long and checkered history deploying racist and xenophobic tropes to protect their profits.
October 23, 2019
Joe Biden’s Individual Mandate Madness
The former vice president wants to bring back the least popular part of the Affordable Care Act and no one seems to want to ask why.
October 17, 2019
The Public Option Bait and Switch
The health care plans competing against Medicare for All are benefiting from a lack of scrutiny.
October 16, 2019
Warren’s Medicare-for-All Dodge Is Wearing Thin
It's a mystery why the Massachusetts senator won't plainly state the truth about single-payer health care.

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