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This Pandemic Showed the Benefits of Universal Health Care

This Pandemic Showed the Benefits of Universal Health Care

| Feb 2, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThere has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it’s standing by as Americans struggle with...
Mental Health Care Is Hard to Come By — Especially If You’re Low-Income

Mental Health Care Is Hard to Come By — Especially If You’re Low-Income

| Dec 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedDuring the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, my boyfriend asked, not unkindly, if I’ve ever been diagnosed with anything besides generalized anxiety disorder. I was relieved that somebody had finally asked about my mental health. All spring and summer 2020, I...
Medicare for All Could Save My Life

Medicare for All Could Save My Life

| Mar 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI recently joined Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) as they introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2021 in Congress. For me and millions of Americans, this bill’s passage would not only be life-changing — it could be life-saving. In 2010, I was...
COVID Relief: The Biggest Health Care Expansion in a Decade

COVID Relief: The Biggest Health Care Expansion in a Decade

| Mar 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedOn March 13, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to address some of the worst impacts of the pandemic. Tucked into the COVID-19 relief bill was a two-year expansion of the Affordable Care Act — in fact, the biggest expansion since it was...
The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Medicare for All

The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Medicare for All

| Jul 29, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedPeople of the menstruating persuasion: how dare you. The highest court in the land demands to know. This July, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that President Trump, who does not have a uterus, was quite right to object to Obama-era rules under the...
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