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Affordable Care ActHealthcare Thirteen Years After Passage of ACA: Real Progress Has Been Made, But US Needs Medicare for All

Signed by President Obama 13 years ago, the Affordable Care Act was an essential step toward ensuring that health care is a right, not a privilege, in the United States.

Shawn Fremstad Hayley Brown / March 23, 2023

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COVID-19DisabilityDrug AccessHealthcare Massive Public Investment Made COVID-19 Vaccines Possible

The US public provided the financing and took on the risks needed to produce the COVID-19 vaccines. The public should also decide how to use the value its investments created.

Shawn Fremstad Tori Coan / March 09, 2023

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Economic Crisis and RecoveryHealth and Social ProgramsHealthcareSocial SecurityUnited States Does Being Balanced at the New York Times Mean Giving the Right Space to Lie?

Dean Baker / February 21, 2023

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Health and Social ProgramsHealthcareSocial SecurityUnited States The Washington Post Wants to Cut Social Security and Medicare (Yeah, What Else is New?)

Much has been done to improve the program's finances in contrast to what is implied in the Post’s editorial. The key is reducing the costs of our healthcare system as a whole.

Dean Baker / February 05, 2023