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  • Pandemic Timeline
    Study Shows 5.4 Million Have Lost Insurance Amid Pandemic
    July 15, 2020
    | Jake Johnson

    Amid the worst public health crisis in a century and a devastating economic downturn that has thrown tens of millions out of work, more than five million people in the US lost their health insurance in just three months this year, shattering the previous record set during the entire annual period from 2008 to 2009.

  • Letters From an American
    What is Going on with Russia?
    July 14, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Media coverage of Trump’s commutation of his associate Roger Stone’s prison sentence has pushed the Russia bounty story out of the headlines. Knowing Trump’s skill at distraction, it’s hard to believe this is a coincidence.

  • Democracy & Government
    What’s Next for Obamacare? An Urgent Prognosis
    August 9, 2017
    | Wendell Potter
    Even if single-payer health care gains traction, private insurers and health care providers will fight to preserve the profits of our current system.
  • Health & Science
    Why Down Under Comes Out on Top in Health Care
    August 8, 2017
    | Christine Kearney
    An Australian journalist wonders why Americans aren't more upset about their lackluster health care.
  • Society
    Are We Monsters?
    May 11, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    We are a failed country because we have lost our compassion and sense of community.
  • Health & Science
    Why Big Insurance Adores the American Health Care Act
    March 23, 2017
    | Wendell Potter
    This plan gives health insurance companies a chance to profit even more than they did from the Affordable Care Act — and with fewer restrictions.
  • A Special Report: Is Health Care Doomed?
    March 4, 2017
    The Republicans' new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is worse than many expected and would lead millions of people to lose their health insurance. But some state legislators are offering alternatives. Bill Moyers profiles one here.
  • Activism
    How Obamacare Turned Me Into a Health Care Activist
    February 10, 2017
    | Brenda Patoine
    The fight for health care is about every last one of us.
  • Health & Science
    Let’s Treat Our Patients, Not Trick Them with Private Insurance
    October 28, 2016
    | Emily Kirchner
    This Halloween, medical students are refusing to endorse the horrifying for-profit health care system as it exists.
  • Health & Science
    History (of Health Insurance Greed) Repeats Itself
    October 11, 2016
    | Wendell Potter
    It doesn't take a psychic to predict that health insurance carriers will return to the Obamacare fold in 2017 with dollar signs in their eyes.


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