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U.S. senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says Americans have much to learn from health systems outside their borders, including Canada’s.
“We do not in the United States do a good job in looking around the rest of the world and as ...[Read more]
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Underneath a heap of hospital blankets, Stephen seemed small for a 7-year-old. His chest rose and fell rapidly, a frightening rhythm given his history of asthma. His parents stood nearby as veteran witnesses — Stephen had been admitted to a Cleveland sa ...[Read more]
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MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC REP. John Conyers has been introducing his single-payer health care bill for decades. But in the explosion of activism following the Bernie Sanders campaign and the pushback against GOP efforts to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Ac ...[Read more]
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An American man with dementia was flown from his Los Angeles home to Britain and allegedly left in a car park by his wife and son, according to court documents in the US seen by the BBC.
Roger Curry, 76, was allegedly abandoned without identification in t ...[Read more]
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China, whose health system has improved steadily in recent years, said that equal health access is a "precondition for the survival of humanity."
The Chinese government published a document on Friday analyzing public health development, stressing that hea ...[Read more]
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Chomsky discusses the historical and political factors that have created and maintained such a shamefully profit-driven health system in the United States. ...[Read more]
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Former President Jimmy Carter (D) predicted that the U.S. will eventually switch over to a universal single-payer healthcare system, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
Carter, 92, made the remarks ahead of teaching his Sunday school class in Plains, ...[Read more]
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The estimated future cost of the program had previously hovered at a mind-boggling $379 billion, an updated draft that could be submitted to Congress as early as today will reportedly exceed $406 billion—a nearly 7 percent increase.
How ridiculous it is ...[Read more]
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