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  1. 29th June 2017, 05:00 #21
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    Default The emerging class struggle over health care in the US

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    The Democrats and Republicans are continuing their stage-managed debate over measures that will have devastating consequences for millions of Americans.

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    Default Democrats appeal for bipartisan compromise to slash health care costs

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    Far from seeking to mobilize popular anger over the assault on health care, Democrats are appealing to Trump and the Republicans to reach an agreement to impose new cuts.

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    Default Anger and frustration over Trumpcare at Louisiana town hall meeting

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    Republican Senator Bill Cassidy declined to say explicitly whether he supported the Senate bill, but he made clear his support for a reactionary assault on access to health care.

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    Default Death, taxes, and Trumpcare

    According to Donald Trump, 'Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated.' But the latest version of the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, negotiated behind closed doors and finally publicly presented by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans, isn't very complicated.


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    Default Hepatitis A on the rise in California

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    The disease, which affects the liver, has already claimed four lives in San Diego, making it the largest outbreak in the state in almost 20 years.

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    Default The policy of “social murder” behind the US health care debate

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    Behind the proposals in the Republicans’ health care bills to gut Medicaid and lift the requirement that insurers cover treatment for substance abuse lies a calculated effort to reduce life expectancy for working people.

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    Default Studies reveal stark health divide in Australia

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    People in working class areas die younger and have almost double the rates of poor health compared to residents of wealthier suburbs.

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    Default Republican Senator Pat Toomey defends health care cuts in phony Town Hall event

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    Hundreds of Pennsylvania residents, opponents of the health care bill Toomey co-authored, were blocked from entering the television studio where the event was being staged.

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    Default The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

    It was a cold March night when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. turned his pulpit towards health care. Speaking to a packed, mixed-race crowd of physicians and health-care workers in Chicago, King gave one of his most influential late-career speeches, blasting the American Medical Association and other organizations for a 'conspiracy of inaction' in the maintenance of a medical apartheid that persisted even then in 1966.


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    Default More rural Tennessee hospitals face closure under Republican health care plans

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    Tennessee is the “canary in the coal mine” for rural hospitals across the country.

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    Default Illinois Democrat’s health care roundtable event marked by frustration, anger

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    Two teachers spoke up to counter Schneider’s complacency about the ACA, explaining that it was difficult to afford and few doctors accepted the ACA plans.

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    Default Senate Republicans maneuver in effort to pass draconian health care bill

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    A new poll shows that only 17 percent of US adults approve of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate Republicans’ heath care bill, while 55 percent disapprove.

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    Default UK National Health Service destruction continues with mass land sell-off

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    With NHS trusts being forced to rush through the sale of assets, the only beneficiaries will be those who are buying, including property speculators.

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    Default The Economic Case for Single Payer Health Care in the USA

    Since the Republican Party's alternative to Obamacare passed the House of Representatives in May, the debate over health care in the United States has erupted anew.


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    Default What's Next for Bernie Sanders: Fighting Republican Health Care Plan in Red State Ral

    Senator Bernie Sanders energized many voters across the country during his failed bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, and now he's hitting the road again to speak with Americans--but with a different end goal in mind.


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    Default The impact of US opioid epidemic on foster care and social services

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    Social service workers, health care workers, and nonprofit organizers spoke to the WSWS about the devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic on children.

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    Default End of the social contract

    Disabled Americans came in wheelchairs into the United States Senate to register their protest against the harsh Republican plan to slash health care.


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    Default US Senate Republicans’ revised health bill maintains draconian Medicaid cuts

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    The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act would mark the effective end of Medicaid as a guaranteed government insurance program based on need.

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    Default Study shows US has poorest health, widest health care gap between rich and poor

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    In the United States, your level of income defines your access to health care, the quality of care you receive, and whether you will meet an early death because of it.

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    Default US Justice Department arrests over 400 in health care fraud crackdown

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    The crackdown is aimed at distracting attention from the main culprits in the opioid crisis—the pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors.

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