“The toll of death is simply staggering — worse than I would have predicted,” said Arthur Caplan, founding head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine. “Covid has been nothing short of the worst failure of […]
“By extending eligibility for Marketplace subsidies above 400% of poverty, the House proposal flattens out the ACA’s subsidy cliff…the largest benefit would go to older people with incomes just above 400% of poverty ($51,040 for a single individual). The benefit would gradually phase […]
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“Long haulers” suffer from a wide range of symptoms, including debilitating fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, chest pain and joint pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other patients experience depression, muscle pain, headaches, intermittent fevers, heart palpitations and problems […]
“I do, as I said before, join my colleagues who support the single-payer plan…For me, meaningful health care reform means that we must have universal coverage. We must have portability. We must have choice of provider.” — Xavier Becerra, 1994 […]
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“Physicians, clinics and women’s health advocates are looking to Xavier Becerra… to help swiftly unwind Trump-era funding cuts and rules that decimated the nation’s network of reproductive health providers over the past four years.’If anyone understands the legal challenges, it’s Becerra…But these are […]
“Everyone going back to ‘normal’ right now, especially in the presence of more transmissible and more deadly variants, would be a recipe for further public health disasters on top of what we’ve already experienced.” It’s Time to Get Back to Normal? […]