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'Everything I Need in One Place'

WEBThe initial centers opened in Boston, Massachusetts, and Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in 1965. Today, community health centers provide care to more patients …

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Let's Focus on the Significance of the Affordable Care Act

WEBLet's Focus on the Significance of the Affordable Care Act. by Brian Gilmore. November 26, 2013. 4:45 PM. Let's keep our eye on the health care ball -- and not on …

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This is Why Healthcare.gov Broke Down

WEBFor the past two weeks, healthcare.gov, the federal government's new health insurance marketplace, has been bogged down by problems, preventing users …

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Health care is a civil right

WEBHealth care is a civil right. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to consider what may be the most important civil rights case since Brown v. Board of Education. I’m referring to the …

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What Does Jeff Bezos have to Offer Health Care

WEBThirty-one Pennsylvanians were arrested during a Poor People's Campaign action in June. The connection between health care and poverty is a core theme for the …

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Why We Need Medicare for All

WEBWith Medicare for All in place, Americans could have a system that’s healthier, more efficient, and above all, more humane. Replacing the current healthcare …

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How Sex Ed Can Save Lives

WEBHow Sex Ed Can Save Lives. Only 29 states and the District of Columbia mandate the teaching of sex education in schools. We need to do better. When Abba M. …

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People of Color Need Healthier Food

WEBIn this time of racial reckoning, the likes of which our nation has not seen since the 1960s, one reconciliatory step is often overlooked: increasing the ability of …

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Defining What It Means to Care

WEBWhile forcibly drugged in the hospital, Lessard called Milwaukee Legal Services for help. Attorneys Bob Blondis and Tom Dixon took on her case, launching …

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The Fight for Mental Health Services in Chicago

WEBIn February, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner released a budget that would cut $82 million more from mental health services. Bucking this trend is the Coalition to Save …

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It’s Time for No-Cost Birth Control

WEBIn 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) emerged as a ray of hope for the sixty-four million women in the United States now entitled to no-cost preventive services. …

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Say Goodbye to Healthcare if Republicans Win

WEBLaura Packard (@lpackard) is a Denver-based health care advocate and progressive digital consultant, executive director of Health Care Voter, and founder of …

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New Jersey Nurses Are on Strike for Better Staffing

WEBHabrack is one of 1,700 nurses on strike at the New Brunswick hospital, which is one of New Jersey’s primary trauma facilities and the flagship its largest …

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Why Temp Workers Are Among the Most Vulnerable Right Now

WEBWith no paid sick leave or health insurance, temp workers face a grim choice: go to work and risk infection or stay home and not get paid. Their jobs are …

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Abortion Bans and the Ensuing Mass Public Health Crisis

WEBOn the other side of the country, Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, signed a bill nearly identical to Mississippi’s fifteen-week ban at the center of the …

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UFC Fighters Are Underpaid and at Risk—They Need a Union

WEBThe Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is one of the most profitable sports organizations in the world, and one of the most unequal. In 2019, more than a …

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We’re Not Ready for Rising Temperatures in a Rapidly Aging Nation

WEBWe will remember the summer of 2023 as our hottest season on record—at least until next year. Communities in Texas and Florida endured weeks-long stretches of …

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For Transgender College Students, Health Care is Far From …

WEBAnnamaria Kontor had been abruptly fired from the Rochester Institute of Technology for prescribing hormone replacement therapy to transgender students. “I …

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An Investigation of Georgia’s Prisons Offers a Step Toward

WEBGeorgia lawmakers began calling for the DOJ to investigate their state prisons in December 2020 after reports by Reuters found that twenty-four inmates had …

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Republicans to Disabled: Go to Hell

WEBSo when the current batch of Republicans took over everything in November, the few aforementioned precedents provided a small shred of hope those in power might …

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My bittersweet high school homecoming

WEBJune 30, 2004. I went back to my high school to be this year's graduation keynote speaker. Twelve years after I left the place, not much has changed for its graduating seniors.

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