health care

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/8/2020
  

  'Our Malady': Historian Timothy Snyder On America's Health Care Problem (Audio)

  The historian took an unexpected turn into researching the health system when he got suddenly, seriously ill in December 2019. He argues that the for-profit healthcare system exposes a dire conflict between capitalism and liberty.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  COVID-19 has Exposed the Flaws in how We Finance Hospitals

  by Barbara Bridgman Perkins

  The financial sector has hijacked health care, making Americans vulnerable to pandemics. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  Economic Reforms Might Be The Best Health-Care Reforms

  by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Susan M. Reverby

  Only by understanding and confronting this entangled web of racism and public health can we actually solve a problem that has been centuries in the making.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Pandemic Exposed a Major Flaw in America’s Health Care System

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  The crisis may create an opportunity to do what once seemed impossible: deliver universal healthcare and end the employer-based insurance system.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/2020
  

  Front-Line Workers in the Covid-19 Fight Need Unions

  by William P. Jones

  Without strengthening labor laws, and extending them to all sectors, we cannot ensure workers have the power to protect their own health and safety on the job and the health and safety of our communities.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/10/2020
  

  Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Roads to Universal Health Care

  by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff

  Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.

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• 8/25/19
  

  A History of the Fight for Universal Healthcare and the Cry of Socialism

  by Donne Levy

  This drama in which Democrats move toward universal healthcare and Republicans cry socialism has happened before, and it is instructive to analyze this history with a view toward what can be expected in the future. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  Health Care for All – A Cautionary Tale from the 1970s

  by Richard Moe

  If the ultimate goal is to expand affordable health care to every American, Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy offer important lessons.

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• SOURCE: Dawson Creek Mirror
  11-8-17
  

  Canadians choosing health care over all else, says health care historian

  Vancouver Island University’s Cheryl Krasnick Warsh says it’s more popular than the queen.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-19-17
  

  How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?

  by Christy Ford Chapin

  The problem with American health care is not the care. It’s the insurance.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-17
  

  After Health Bill’s Defeat, What Trump Can Learn From L.B.J.

  by Michael Beschloss

  Unlike Donald Trump, Lyndon Johnson had years of political experience that enabled him to pass his landmark Medicare legislation.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  3-27-17
  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin Puts Trump's Health Care Defeat In Historical Perspective

  "By going for this crazy, difficult, complicated problem first — without knowing you had your own party behind you — I think it's just gonna cast a shadow on everything else."

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• 12-17-13
  

  Santa Clara University to Deny "Elective" Abortion Coverage to Employees

  by Nancy C. Unger

  Santa Clara University does not generally impose religious doctrine on its staff, faculty or students... except in this case.

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• Seeking the Good Death

  by Emily K. Abel

  Pediatric ward, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1907.Although most terminally ill Americans define a good death as one that occurs at home surrounded by family, a high proportion of people die alone in hospitals, tethered to machines. And many high technology treatments administered to dying patients impose enormous financial costs and inflict additional suffering without significantly extending life.