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Adam Gaffney

AG is a physician and writer in Massachusetts.  He blogs at www.theprogressivephysician.org and is on twitter at @awgaffney.

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)

Our failing healthcare system costs us countless lives. It’s time to adopt Medicare for All

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America’s health care system is still broken: Why single-payer is the only thing that will ever fix it

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Protestors walk through smoke Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

Baltimore’s secret history of death: Racism, corporate greed & the most infamous mass-poisoning in American history

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Ronald Reagan, Oliver North (AP/Barry Thumma/Lana Harris)

Debunking the myths about immigration: Ronald Reagan, Central America and everything Ted Cruz doesn’t understand

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Paul Ryan (AP/Eric Gay)

Conservatives’ awful new Medicaid ploy: The Obamacare “private option”

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A pro- single payer doctor’s concerns about Obamacare

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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Joshua Lott)

Republicans’ biggest misunderstanding about Obamacare

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The right’s healthcare “revolution” is a scam

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The “Cadillac” health plan is a myth

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Your doctor copays are too high!

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