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Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks during a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on October 1, 2024 in New York City. This is expected to be the only vice presidential debate of the 2024 general election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Walz: Voters won't accept half-measures

Griffin Eckstein
People rally in favor of single-payer healthcare for all Californians as the US Senate prepares to vote on the Senate GOP health care bill, outside the office of California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, June 27, 2017 in South Gate, California. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The path to universal health care

Dave A. Chokshi
A patient surved a code blue and then was rushed to ICU to be intubated and be placed on a ventalator inside Providence Saint John's Health Center on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Santa Monica, CA. They have expanded their ICU capacity. They are not currently over capacity at the moment. They have had 19 covid positive cases and they have 23 beds at this moment. The numbers are constantly is shiflting. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

ICU Doc: US healthcare is failing

Adam Gaffney
A healthcare worker tends to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Make pandemic policy permanent

Ben Bramble
FDNY paramedics load an elderly patient into their ambulance on an emergency call during the novel Coronavirus pandemic in NYC (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

COVID-19 widows may lose health care

Bob Hennelly
A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks while introducing health care legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why rich people outlive the rest of us

Keith A. Spencer
"Squeezed" by Alissa Quart (Harper Collins/Ann Fox)

Middle class shame is real

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Louis-Dreyfus fighting cancer with humor

Rachel Leah
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Scandinavia in Maryland?

Ann Jones - TomDispatch.com

Obama could've been better

Matthew Smith
(AP)

Timothy Callaghan - The Conversation
Peter Shumlin (Reuters/Mike Theiler)

Vermont nixes single payer

Luke Brinker
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San Francisco's rightward turn

George McIntire
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