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Today's Topics
- Medicare for All
- Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All Means Worse Health Insurance at Higher Cost for Most Americans
- V.P. Biden's Plan Is Really a Side Door to Medicare-for-All
- The Republican Strategy to Pass Medicare-for-All Continues
- The Fake Democratic Health Care Debate
- The American Medical Association Flirts with Socialized Medicine
- Poll Shows Medicare-for-All Is Confusing to Most Americans
- Health Policy Expert: Sanders' 'Medicare-for-All' Plan Will Lead to Rationed Care, Waiting Lists
- Medicare-for-All Will Raise Taxes, Force Hospital Layoffs
- Medicare-for-All Hides Obamacare's Flaws
- Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under Medicare-for-All
- New Medicare-for-All Bill Would Kick 181 Million Off Private Insurance
- Bernie Sanders Introduces New Medicare-for-All Bill, Welcoming War with Insurance Industry
- Hello, Medicare-for-All. Goodbye, Doctor-Patient Relationship
- 9 Senate Democrats on Getting Rid of Private Health Insurance
- Drug Prices
- Big Pharma Sinks to the Bottom of U.S. Industry Rankings
- Trudeau's Drug-Price Overhaul Is Set to Cost Drugmakers Billions
- How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans
- There Is No Single, Best Policy for Drug Prices
- Trump Fixates on Drug Prices as Campaign Looms
- No End in Sight to Rising Drug Prices
- The Rebate System Spikes Drug Prices, Scripps Study Confirms
- The Messaging War Over Drug Prices
- Big Pharma's Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn't Add Up
- Examination of International Drug Pricing Policies
- 2020 Election
- Democrats Are Retreating on Single Payer Health Care
- Biden Mimics GOP Fear-Mongering in His Attacks on Medicare-for-All
- Facing Pressure in Campaign, Sanders Defends His Signature Health Care Plan
- Kamala Harris's Preposterous New Claim About Medicare-for-All
- Sen. Cory Booker Rolls Out Health Care Plan
- Health Care Is an Opportunity and Liability for Both Parties in 2020
- Biden's Health Care Plan Reveals the Divide Among Democrats
- Bernie Sanders Rips Joe Biden's ‘Middle Ground' Policies
- OPIOID CRISIS
- Opioid Crackdown Could Lead to More Drug Company Bankruptcies
- Cities and States Look to Big Pharma to Cover Costs of the Opioid Epidemic
- Using Opioids to Treat Addiction Is the Gold Standard. So Why Aren't More Docs Prescribing Them
- 50 States Ranked by Opioid Overdose Death Rates
- Opioid Crisis Brings Attention to Wealthy Family
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