Healthcare

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2023
  

  50 Years at Cook County Hospital Prove Abortion is Healthcare

  by Amy Zanoni

  Abortion rights activists have focused on horror stories of the pre-Roe era as cautionary tales, but the history of public hospitals since Roe shows that real reproductive freedom requires expanded access to care and a robust social safety net. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/16/2020
  

  The Black Plague

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/19/2020
  

  Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’

  First came early data showing that the coronavirus affected African-Americans disproportionately. Then came the fight for a fair response and recovery.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/9/2020
  

  The U.S. Approach to Public Health: Neglect, Panic, Repeat

  Time to give new life to an old idea: A strong public health system is the best guarantor of good health.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/1/2020
  

  Yes, Covid-19 Treatment Must Be Free for All. But That’s Not Enough.

  by Mical Raz

  Carving out exceptions for treating specific illnesses undermines health.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/30/2020
  

  No, Mr. President, Healthcare Workers Aren’t Stealing Masks. You Failed Them.

  by Deborah Levine

  We needed mass production of basic gear, because our affinity for high-tech innovation has left us with shortages.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/27/2020
  

  ‘White-Collar Quarantine’ Over Virus Spotlights Class Divide

  Child care options, internet access and extra living space leave a gulf between rich and poor in coping with disruptions to school and work.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/23/2020
  

  My Wife is a Doctor Quietly Doing her Job, Which is Working to Contain Coronavirus

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "I take my own job seriously, but nothing I do will ever be as significant as what my wife, who prevents and treats infections, is doing right now," writes history professor Jonathan Zimmerman.   

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-14-18
  

  Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980

  The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-27-17
  

  The moment in 1993 when healthcare died

  by Joseph J. Fins

  Bob Dole and Pat Moynihan were ready to cut a deal. Then Bill Clinton said no.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-13-17
  

  The American Health Care System Has Lots of Problems. Here's When They Started.

  Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, says the key year was 1938.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-12-17
  

  GOP misconstruing history by claiming Bill Clinton also wanted to cut Medicaid

  by Gene B. Sperling and Chris Jennings

  That’s what two key Democrats from the Clinton administration say.

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• SOURCE: Political Wire
  7-7-17
  

  The Most Unpopular Bill In Three Decades

  "The Republican health care effort is the most unpopular legislation in three decades — less popular than the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, the widely hated Troubled Asset Relief Program bank bailout bill in 2008, and even President Bill Clinton’s failed health reform effort in the 1990s."

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• 7-9-17
  

  A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before. It Ended in Disaster.

  by Michael Todd Landis

  A history lesson from the 1850s that the GOP and Donald Trump should heed.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-23-17
  

  What happens when the federal government eliminates health coverage?

  by Simon Haeder

  Lessons from the past.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  6-29-17
  

  Duke’s Nancy MacLean says the GOP plan to replace Obamacare reflects the radical right’s “stealth plan” (Interview)

  She is the author of "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."

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• 7-2-17
  

  The GOP’s Pattern of Denial Is Usually Followed by Acceptance

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That’s what happens with Social Security.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-22-17
  

  History Lesson: How the Democrats pushed Obamacare through the Senate

  The key work on creating the Senate version of the ACA was done in secret.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6-20-17
  

  Congress Has a History of Legislating in Secrecy

  by Julian Zelizer (Interview)

  Medicare was largely designed in secret, though there had been public hearings.