health care
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Ryan VP pick signals effort to smash what remains of social programs
The selection of Rep. Paul Ryan to round out the Republican ticket reconfirms what the Romney campaign represents: an effort…
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Lindsay/Osorio 2012: Health care for people, not for profit-making!
A full overturn of Obama's health care law would have been a setback for workers, but upholding the “individual mandate”…
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Pennsylvania law gags doctors
A new law forbids doctors from telling anyone about the toxic chemicals that may be making you sick, in order…
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Debt collectors demand payment at hospital beds
Patients seeking care in hospital emergency rooms or recovering from surgery are being confronted by debt collectors, often posing as…
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Cuba partnering with Ukraine to build cancer center
The governments of Ukraine and Cuba have announced an agreement to build a treatment center for cancer patients in Ukraine.
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Health care system kills Anna Brown
In September 2011, a homeless African American mother was found dead in a jail cell after being arrested at the…
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Poor people in US die from preventable cancers
Along with smoking and lack of exercise, poverty is a factor leading to deaths from preventable cancers in the United…
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One thousand women die in childbirth daily
The humanitarian aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) reports that approximately 1,000 women die every day in childbirth…
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45,000 die from lack of health insurance
Every year, nearly 45,000 people die from lack of health insurance and good medical care, Harvard University researchers have reported.
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Hospital sentences man to death over immigration status
A people's movement in the Bay Area has succeeded in forcing a hospital to reverse its refusal to perform a…
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