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Time to stop using 9 million children as a bargaining CHIP

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The tax bill opens a back door to overhaul health care

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US health care system: A patchwork that no one likes

Simon Haeder

Clock running out on health program for 9 million kids

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Mitch McConnell (Getty/Drew Angerer)

How the latest effort to repeal Obamacare would affect millions

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Why state-level single-payer health care efforts are doomed

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Trump isn’t letting Obamacare die; he’s trying to kill it

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How killing the ACA could lead to more opioid deaths in West Virginia and other Trump states

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP)

Why health savings accounts are a bust for the poor but a boost for the privileged

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A protester at the Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. (Peter Cooper)

How bills to replace Obamacare would especially harm women

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Not just for the poor: The crucial role of Medicaid in America’s health care system

Simon Haeder
FILE - In this March 10, 2006 file photo, Ohio coal miners head into the mine for a shift inside the Hopedale Mine near Cadiz, Ohio. An election-year bill that would protect health-care and pension benefits for more than 100,000 retired coal miners is dividing coal-state Republicans. Thousands of miners are expected to gather at the Capitol to push for the measure, which they describe as life-saving and fulfilling a promise the government made in 1946. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File) (AP)

Mine wars: The struggle for coal miners’ health care and pension benefits comes to a head

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