Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Orange County Register | Sally C. Pipes
October 21, 2019
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes.
Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, Indiana, mayor resurfaced, in which he pledged his support for Medicare for All.
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Medicare’s Denial Of Coverage To Kidney Patients Could Be Just The Beginning
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
October 22, 2019
Going forward, both near-term and long-term changes are necessary. In the near-term, it is unconscionable that Medicare patients are being denied a more efficacious treatment that will actually reduce overall health care expenditures. In fact, due to its efficacy, virtually every Medicaid and commercial insurer in America currently covers Auryxia for iron deficiency anemia in CKD patients. Consequently, CMS should restore Medicare Part D coverage for Auryxia®.
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Documentary ‘Modified’ peddles falsehoods about GMOs, pesticides and ‘corporate control’ of food
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Kathleen Hefferon, Ph.D.
October 21, 2019
That still rings true today, with the explosion of propaganda wars aided by the Internet, texting, social media, and the emergence of Internet-based trolls and bots. A U.S. Senate-commissioned analysis by a cybersecurity firm released last December found that Russia’s infamous troll factory, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), is conducting “relentless modern information warfare.”
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