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February 14, 2020
Magazine
Libby Watson
Can Corporate America Get Behind Medicare for All?
One man’s crusade to sell big business on a health care overhaul
January 3, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Rise of a Hollow Political Catchphrase
Democrats focus on "kitchen-table issues" to avoid being tarnished as overzealous liberals.
September 11, 2019
Libby Watson
How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor
The most vulnerable Americans are being dunned into destitution through surprise fees and fraudulent practices.
February 16, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Mental Health Scapegoat
The GOP's hand-wringing over "deranged" individuals distracts from America's real pathology: guns.
September 13, 2017
Rebecca Grant
Does Your Insurance Cover Abortion?
A new slew of state laws are aimed at making sure abortion coverage is banned from private health insurance plans—putting the procedure still further out of reach.
July 17, 2017
Magazine
Kim Phillips-Fein
Trump’s Austerity Politics
How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.
June 6, 2017
Adam Gaffney
How Medical Bills Harm Us All
Elisabeth Rosenthal's new book 'An American Sickness' traces the effects of profit in American health care.
February 15, 2017
Sarah Jones
Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics
The long-discredited theory is newly relevant in 2017—but maybe it's always been embedded in the Republican platform.
December 5, 2016
Joel Dodge
Obamacare Wasn’t a Radical Change. But Trumpcare Certainly Will Be.
The outgoing president's health care law mildly reformed the existing system. The incoming administration wants to overhaul it entirely.
October 24, 2016
Sukjong Hong
How long will Harvard hold out against its striking dining hall workers?
July 13, 2016
David Dayen
Obama’s Big Flip-Flop to Save Obamacare
A public option for the Affordable Care Act is back on the table.
January 23, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
No, Ted Cruz’s family did not lose their health insurance because of Obamacare.
December 28, 2015
Spencer Woodman
How Large Companies Are Exploiting a Loophole in Obamacare
"Skinny" health insurance plans make a mockery of the Affordable Care Act
July 22, 2014
Danny Vinik
Chart: How the New Obamacare Ruling Would Hurt Americans' Wallets
May 30, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare Is Slashing Those Crazy COBRA Premiums
Conservatives say the law crushes liberty. See why this woman disagrees.
April 21, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Cause for Concern
Health-care costs are rising—and the experts aren't sure why
April 9, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Case Against Obamacare Just Took Another Blow
March 25, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Obamacare Benefit That Gets No Respect
The uninsured aren't the only ones who benefit. The underinsured do too.
March 20, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Latest Obamacare Doom Prediction—and What to Think About It
March 17, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The GOP Has a New Health Plan—and It Sounds Exactly Like the Old One
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