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Price transparency is key to reducing health care costs

healthcare, News, Opinion

Health care has emerged as a fault line in this year's election campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris supports expanding the Affordable Care Act, while former President Donald Trump wants to scale it back. Yet there's one health care policy that the Biden-Harris and Trump administrations both supported and can coalesce around again: price transparency.

This bipartisan health care fix is supported by 92 percent of Americans, according to a new poll by Echelon In...

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Harris campaign suggests Trump avoiding debate because he doesn’t want to defend ‘toxic positions’

News

Vice President Harris’s campaign on Friday argued that former President Trump shared a handful of “toxic positions” on the debate stage earlier this week and suggested he’s avoiding another debate so he doesn’t have to defend them.

Harris has called for another debate after her sharp performance on Tuesday night, but Trump said Thursday that he wouldn’t debate Harris again, squashing the idea.

Ian Sams, Harris campaign senior spokesperson and senior adviser for rapid...

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Schumer to force GOP vote on IVF

health care, News, Republicans
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Harris mocks Trump’s debate performance at campaign rally

News

Vice President Harris on Thursday mocked former President Trump’s debate performance, calling him out at a rally in North Carolina for having “concepts of a plan."

Harris poked fun at Trump for saying that he was interested in trying to repeal ObamaCare again but added that he doesn’t currently have a plan to replace it.

“I have concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now,” Trump said during Tuesday's debate. 

“You heard what he said in the debate,...

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Bridging America’s divide: Understanding moral misconceptions

Democrats, News, Opinion, Republicans

This op-ed is part of The Hill’s “How to Fix America” series exploring solutions to some of America’s most pressing problems.

We often hear that Democrats and Republicans are worlds apart. But what if that perception is the real issue? Even the most thoughtful among us can fall into the habit of assuming the ideals of the other side. Research reveals that this subtle, yet pervasive, belief — not policy differences — is what truly deepens America’s divide.

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Grading the Trump-Harris debate — the good, the bad and the weird 

News, Opinion

On Tuesday we may have seen the most important event in the 2024 election. Something even more earthshaking than President Biden dropping out of the race: Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris.  

Oh, and there was also a debate. 

Swift's endorsement, which included the meme-able line, “I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos,” featured a picture of her holding a cat and was signed “Taylor Swift, Ch...

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The factors contributing to high parental stress

health care, News
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