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“Trumpcare” Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for “Garbage” Health Insurance.

Dirk2020-10-20T13:18:40+00:00October 20th, 2020|Healthcare|

“The marketing is extremely deceptive,” said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “Both the advertising and the brokers use terms that to the [...]

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Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

Dirk2020-10-06T14:54:32+00:00October 6th, 2020|Healthcare, Who They Are|

“The ACA expanded health care for low- and middle-income people and financed it largely with a tax increase on the rich,” Hanlon explained. “Repealing it would unwind all that. And [...]

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Covid-19 rips through motel rooms of farmworkers who pick nation’s produce

Dirk2020-08-25T12:52:10+00:00August 25th, 2020|Healthcare, Safety|

“When you have a crowded living condition, when you have a population that perhaps may not have access to health care services, preventive services, social supports, when you have a [...]

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‘I Won’t Be Alive to Work’ – Las Vegas Union Wants Sick Leave, Quarantine Pay

Dirk2020-07-30T14:18:48+00:00July 30th, 2020|Healthcare|

"If I go back too early, I won't be able to be alive to work," said Olee Stewart, 59, a cook at Harrah's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, who is [...]

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Paid sick leave policies in the spotlight as COVID-19 concerns mount for frontline workers

Dirk2020-07-30T14:18:48+00:00July 30th, 2020|Healthcare|

"Most of our workers, if they don't work they don't get paid.... and their benefits are all dependent on hours worked," Dennis Desmond, business manager for the Laborers' International Union [...]

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Report: 1.6 million Texans lost employer-sponsored health insurance

Dirk2020-07-10T22:08:53+00:00July 10th, 2020|Healthcare|

An estimated 1.6 million Texans are uninsured after losing their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a San Francisco-based health policy think [...]

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‘Perfect storm’: Coronavirus, poverty, lack of medical care ravaging rural areas such as Lowndes County

Dirk2020-07-10T22:06:35+00:00July 10th, 2020|Healthcare|

A lack of access to medical care combined with poverty and the attendant health problems, including hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease and diabetes, that can worsen the outcomes [...]

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At Walmart, the Coronavirus Makes It Feel Like Black Friday

Dirk2020-07-10T21:54:10+00:00July 10th, 2020|Healthcare|

But right now, we retail associates are putting our health and safety at risk as people stock up for weeks (perhaps months) of isolation. - New York Times The role [...]

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Miami Janitors Protest Low Wages and Mistreatment Amid Coronavirus

Dirk2020-07-10T21:51:53+00:00July 10th, 2020|Healthcare|

"I self-quarantined when a coworker thought they might test positive, and my employers said they weren't gonna pay me and they were gonna tell me if I still had a [...]

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