Pluralistic: Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines (20 Dec 2024)

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Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines: How public health can win the Battle of the Cranks.
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Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)

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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)

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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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Pluralistic: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels (26 Apr 2023)

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Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily subsidized charnel houses.
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Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2022 US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care

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US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents – and you're next.
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Pluralistic: 11 Aug 2022

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A dark money group is lying about Medicare cuts: Who the fuck are the "American Prosperity Alliance?"
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Pluralistic: 04 May 2022

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The eye-glazing scam of Medicare drug plans: Six tiers and none of them mean a fucking thing.
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Pluralistic: 18 Nov 2021

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This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills.
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