<div><p>Mental health is a difficult topic to discuss even at the best of times. But when a patient is already suffering from a disease or illness, or when they're recovering from surgery, they're in a particularly vulnerable state of mind. It's during this time — at the complicated intersection bet

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<div><p>Seniors in America have it tough. Instead of granting COLA (cost of living adjustments), the Republican-controlled Congress has been hard at work finding ways to slash Social Security and Medicare, the two programs which provide the majority of income and medical coverage to millions of reti

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<div><p>Universal health care — or single-payer health care, or medicare for all, or socialized medicine — has come of age as a mainstream political issue in the United States. There is now an "official" Medicare for All Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives that <a href="https://thinkprogress

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<div><p>Nobody would deny that politics in America is fundamentally broken. At the surface level, we have a farce called “political parties” that whip us into a frenzy every few years about Congressional seats. But below that is a much older struggle — one between moneyed interests and average citiz

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<div><p>America needs a fair, affordable and cost-effective health care system. Until recently, the terms “universal health care” and “single-payer health care” didn’t surface quite as much in our conversation about how to fix the system once and for all.</p><p>What is universal health care? If you’

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<div><h2>Types of Healthcare Systems</h2><p>Politicians love to brag about how the United States is the greatest nation on earth. But when it comes to health insurance, this is far from true. <a href="https://www.kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/" rel="noopener n

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<div><p>Another election season, another increasingly bizarre redrawing of the electoral map. In states across the U.S., voting districts are elongated and chopped, stretched like taffy to cover certain state regions and amputated to avoid others.</p><p>All these calculations and measurements work t

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<div><p>Every parent wants a healthy child, right? Too often, though, people neglect to consider just how much the events of childhood can leave a lasting impact on a child.</p><p>For example, we have only very recently started to understand just how much mental illness is impacting the current youn

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<div><p>For the politically informed, the punditry on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC has gone on ad-nauseam. Partisan dialog so wholly permeates our news media these days that it can be challenging to find good information about topics outside of the constant GOP vs. Democrat slugfest.</p><p>An inquisitive

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Kate Harveston

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