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Insurance Industry Panics As Sanders Vows To Ban For-Profit Healthcare
By all accounts, the American healthcare system is broken. Per-capita healthcare spending in the U.S., at almost $10,000 annually, is around three times that of most other major developed countries and a staggering 17% of the nation’s GDP – far more than any other nation save the tiny Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu – is spent…
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Black Woman Dies After Being Forcibly Removed From Hospital By Cops
Barbara Dawson, a 57-year-old African American woman, died Monday in a Florida hospital after being forcibly removed from the facility by police. The Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown had admitted Dawson on Sunday at about 10:30 p.m. after she was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance with complaints of stomach pain. Hours after being…
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Obama Signs Bill Preventing Insurance Companies From Hiking Premiums For Millions Of Americans
President Obama just did something spectacular for millions of Americans: he signed a bill that would prevent healthcare insurance premiums from increasing in 2016. The bill is called the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, which will keep premiums for approximately 3 million people from going up next year. The bipartisan healthcare bill was signed on Wednesday and surprisingly…
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Historic: Obama Issues New Rules To Outlaw Transgender Discrimination In Healthcare
President Obama continues to fight for gender equality by introducing regulations that explicitly prohibit medical professionals from discriminating against people on the basis of their gender identity. The proposed rule will ensure that transgender people have equal access to medical care, and bans health insurance providers from excluding transgender patients from coverage. Although the Affordable…
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U.S. Government Finally Admits Pot Kills Cancer Cells, May Be Better Than Pills
Adding momentum to a growing movement, the federal government and the National Institute of Health have announced new breakthroughs in medical marijuana research that indicate the plant could take a much larger role in the struggle against cancer. While Colorado and a few other states were successfully able to legalize marijuana, the rest of the country…
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Walker Vows To Rob 13 Million Of Their Healthcare: 'It's The American Dream!'
After the years of never-ending denouncements and countless calls to repeal Obamacare, a Republican presidential candidate has finally proposed a coherent alternative. It will come as no surprise that his proposal will strip healthcare away from over thirteen million Americans, a figure that will lead to 9,800 deaths a year, according to the American Public…