Biden unveils Iowa ad defending Obamacare record

August 27, 2019 News

Joe Scarborough: Obamacare should be ‘central message of [Biden’s] campaign in a year that democrats care most about healthcare.’
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Biden defends ObamaCare record in new Iowa ad

August 27, 2019 News

Joe Biden's presidential campaign rolled out a new television ad in Iowa on Tuesday, touting his ties to the passage of the Affordable Care Act during his time as vice president in the Obama administration.The minu...

[Series] Primary prevention of ischaemic heart disease: populations, individuals, and health professionals

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 News

Ischaemic heart disease has a multifactorial aetiology and can be prevented from developing in populations primordially, and in individuals at high risk by primary prevention. The primordial approach focuses on social determinants of health in populations: political, economic, and social factors, principally unplanned urbanisation, illiteracy, poverty, and working and living conditions. Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals can lead to major improvements in cardiovascular hea...

Calling out Republicans; celebrating Democrats; tragic prescience

August 24, 2019 News

Looking at how candidates helped their campaigns in the two Democratic debates so far, Rachel Maddow looks at Mayor Pete Buttigieg calling out Republicans, Vice President Joe Biden praising the Obamacare and his fellow Democratic candidates, and Beto O
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Wyoming Strives To Use Medicaid To Reduce Air Ambulance Bills For All Patients

August 23, 2019 News

Some presidential candidates are making trans rights a 2020 campaign issue

August 22, 2019 News

A handful of presidential candidates say the needs of transgender Americans deserve more attention, and they’re making them an issue on the 2020 campaign trail.

Three candidates for the Democratic nomination spoke at length recently with the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund about how their policies on health care, education, and justice would affect transgender people. The action fund provided a transcript of a forum called Transform the White House.

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Why Planned Parenthood was right to refuse federal funding | Moira Donegan

August 22, 2019 Contraception and family planning, health, News, planned-parenthood, politics, US news, US politics

The Trump administration put Planned Parenthood in an untenable position – and the organization made the moral choice to walk away
The Trump administration expanded its assault on women’s rights this week, engineering the loss of birth control and other reproductive healthcare coverage for millions of low income women.
On Monday, the administration’s Title X gag rule went into effect, barring any provider who performs abortions or even provides referrals for them from receiving...

Pence’s funny math on Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all costs

August 22, 2019 News

The vice president's numbers don't add up, and his office didn't even try to defend them.

Sen. Bernie Sanders changes Medicare-for-all plan in face of opposition by organized labor

August 22, 2019 News

Leaders and members of unions have complained to candidates that a single-payer plan would offer weaker coverage than they have negotiated under the current system.

How an ER doctor and a Purdue Pharma whistleblower think about the opioid crisis

August 21, 2019 News, pharma

Purdue Pharma has received heaps of criticism for the role it played in the US opioid epidemic. After a year-long investigation, Quartz found that Mundipharma—an international network of companies also owned by...