Health Care
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In Post-Roe Alabama, the Poor Suffer Most
In an exclusive excerpt from Becca Andrews' new book 'No Choice,' a young woman navigates the health care system in Alabama, desperate to have an abortion, despite also wanting a child. 'It's a whole different ballgame when you're poor, Black, and pregnant, especially in the South.'
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After Far-Right Harassment, Trans People Are Fighting to Keep Their Health Care
Clients of clinics that provide gender-affirming care report canceled programming and slow-downs in communications with physicians
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‘This Is Going to Hurt’: Health Care’s a Bitch and Then You Die
Ben Whishaw stars as an overworked doctor in the UK-set medical dramedy that’s like a darkly comic ‘ER’
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The Problem With Ricki Lake's 'The Business of Birth Control'
The new documentary (and $147 Masterclass) purports to expose the reality of hormonal birth control — but experts say it could drive people away from necessary medical care at a crucial time
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Court Sides with Voters, Thwarts GOP Plan to Stop Working People from Getting Health Care
The people of Missouri voted to expand healthcare for low-income residents. Republicans tried to stop it but were overruled by the state supreme court
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'We're a Sick Nation': 'The Hospital' Author Brian Alexander on America's Health Care Crisis
New book exposes the perils and pitfalls of trying to foster wellness in rural areas and small towns devastated by the forces of capitalism
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Watch Georgia Senate Candidate Jon Ossoff Destroy Republican David Perdue Over Health Care Failures
This is how it's done, folks
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Tennessee Aims to Become Pioneer in Cutting Health Spending on the Poor, Children
The Trump administration and the state government are working together on a plan to undermine Medicaid
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The Washington Post's Latest Fact Check of Bernie Sanders Is Really Something
Why did the paper's fact checker call Bernie Sanders’s accurate claim about medical bankruptcies “mostly false”?
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'Just Ridiculous': Trump's Mar-a-Lago Cronies Meddled in Veterans Affairs as Employees Seethed
Internal emails reveal how an inexperienced trio of Trump's cronies worked to make big changes to the health care provider for 9 million veterans
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