Jim Hightower / OtherWordsJul 8, 2019
Despite single-payer's popularity among most Americans, our lawmakers are yawning over the people’s plea for sweeping reform. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Margaret Flowers / Health Over Profit for EveryoneAug 1, 2018
A Koch brothers-funded study that produced scare headlines about the cost of a single-payer system is flawed in serious ways. What we cannot afford is the system we have now. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
TOM MURPHY / The Associated PressJan 30, 2018
The aim of the new firm, which will be independent and “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” is to help address their workers' health care costs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BLANKOct 14, 2013
Two new articles dive into the ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has gamed the market forces behind U.S. drug prices, and how sweetheart deals between doctors and financing firms are gouging the economically vulnerable. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigJul 18, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including what will happen in one state when Obamacare is fully implemented next year and a video debunks McDonald's fuzzy budget math for its employees. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 3, 2012
A policy set to be enacted by the nation's largest private employer would deny health insurance to new employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, effectively shifting costs from the company to you. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigNov 15, 2012
John Metz is hitting his customers with a 5 percent surcharge to offset the cost of paying for the health care program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
The Rev. Madison Shockley / TruthdigOct 15, 2012
My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from the relief programs. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigOct 15, 2012
In his latest Op-Ed, the New York Times columnist rips the Republican presidential ticket for a health care plan that would deny potentially millions of Americans coverage in order to save money -- all while proposing a trillion-dollar tax cut that would help the wealthiest Americans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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