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As COVID raged in New York hospitals, executives pocketed $73M in bonuses (2022)

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Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead

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Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan

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Who thought putting a casino in everyone’s pocket was a good idea?

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America’s bad bet on sports gambling

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Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms

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Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption (2021)

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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

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House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week

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U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed

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The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies

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Texas Electric Bills Were $28B Higher Under Deregulation

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U.S. House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

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US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill

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Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market

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U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

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Discount chains are thriving, but what do they do to poor communities?

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After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

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Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi

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Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study

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America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People

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Health insurance companies are useless

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U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada

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Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure

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Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care

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As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

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People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly

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Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost

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A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled

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Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages

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Loser's Lunch

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The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size of Japan’s Economy

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U.S. to make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Doctors Play

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Top Senate Democrat Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

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The State Pension Funding Gap

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Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues

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Pharma CEO Worries Americans Will Embrace Single-Payer Plan

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Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption (2009)

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Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'

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Why drug prices in America are so high (2016)

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Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

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Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

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U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem

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Affordable Care

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California has legalized recreational marijuana

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Why drug prices in America are so high

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Another Study Finds Link Between Pharma Money and Brand-name Prescribing

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Columbia becomes the first US university to divest from private prison companies

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How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about

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Boxing journeymen: sport's biggest losers or unappreciated artists?

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Nevada marijuana legalization gets official OK for 2016 ballot

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What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs?

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New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws

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SimplyInsured (YC W13) raises $750K to simplify health insurance

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NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it and end wrongheaded war on pot

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United States incarceration rate

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What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013

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Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future

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House Passes Health Care Reform

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US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal

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Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)

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Make sports betting taboo again

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