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New Bill Would Ban Private Insurance Plans From Using 'Medicare' Name
"'Medicare Advantage' is just private insurance that profits by denying coverage, and the name is being used to trick seniors into enrolling," said Rep. Ro Khanna. "That's not right."
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DeJoy Faces Outrage Over New Postal Service Price Hikes
"We can't let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail," said one critic.
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Social Security 'In Grave Danger' If GOP Retakes Congress, Advocates Warn
"Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts, even though Social Security doesn't add a single penny to the deficit," noted one campaigner.
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'Straight Up Fraud': Data Confirms Private Insurers Use Medicare Advantage to Steal Billions
"The move to privatize Medicare," said one expert, has "been very profitable, in part because insurers are good at making their patients seem sicker."
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As Trump Issues 'Sharply Self-Incriminating' Subpoena Response, DOJ Urged to Act
"I think they were trying to hand the Justice Department all the evidence on a silver platter," one legal expert said of the panel probing last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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240+ Groups Push Senate to Defy Telecom Attacks and Confirm Biden FCC Pick
"The companies lobbying against Gigi Sohn are simply trying to do one thing: keep the FCC deadlocked for as long as possible," said one advocate. "Sohn is an exceptionally qualified nominee and it's well past time to confirm her."
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Opinion
A Fast-Emptying Ark: The World Grows Quieter by the Day
A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970.
by Bill McKibben
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The Criminal Case Against Donald J. Trump Has Been Established, But Will the Garland Act?
I believe he will.
by Robert Reich
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The GOP Is a Cultish, Destructive Fascist Organization—Not a Legitimate Political Party
The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.
by Thom Hartmann
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