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Shefali Luthra is The 19th’s reproductive health reporter. She has covered health care for more than a decade, starting at the Texas Tribune.

In Florida, drug re-importation from Canada finds new champions, old snags

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Bernie Sanders, joined by Richard Blumenthal and Kirsten Gillibrand, unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

For 2020 Dem hopefuls, “Medicare-For-All” is a defining issue, however they define it

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(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Drug-pricing policies find new momentum as “a 2020 thing”

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A Shutdown placard is seen at the entrance of the Liberty State ferry terminal, January 21, 2018. (Getty/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

How the government shutdown affects health programs

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Playing on fear and fun, hospitals follow Pharma in direct-to-consumer advertising

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(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

States looking to tax opioids pin hopes on November elections

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Once its greatest foes, doctors are embracing single-payer

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A doctor holds Truvada pills at her office in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Out-of-pocket costs put HIV prevention drug out of reach for many at risk

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Children and workers are seen at the Tornillo tent camp which houses immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Defendants in diapers? Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone

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(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Bubble Pop? Brownie Batter? Flavored vapes add to the e-cig debate

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FILE - In this June 14, 2011 file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. Calling the rising cost of drugs “unsustainable,” congressional advisers Wednesday, June 15, 2016, recommended major changes to Medicare’s popular outpatient prescription program, now 10 years old. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

Vermont legislators pass a drug importation law. So what?

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When credit scores become casualties of health care

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People are removed as they protest proposed cuts to Medicaid (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Medicaid is rural America’s financial midwife

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Bad bedside manna: Bank loans signed in the hospital leave patients vulnerable

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Lead found in fidget spinners is no idle threat

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Dr. Ben Carson is sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (AP/Olivier Douliery)

Cuts in federal housing help would hurt people’s health, research suggests

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An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

A new Zika threat hovers as summer’s mosquitos get bzzzzy

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(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Instead of trashing a $600 EpiPen, some patients are getting a refill

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