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Rage Against American Healthcare  

Laura Marsh ▪ Summer 2021

In the United States, sick patients spend hours coordinating, haggling, and sometimes pleading with the healthcare system. Can these frustrations become a source of radical change?



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Why Obamacare Repeal Won’t Die  

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ July 26, 2017

The zombie-like resilience of GOP efforts to repeal-and-replace Obamacare would be the stuff of a Hollywood epic—were it not so devastating to millions of Americans.



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America’s Health Care System is Even More Broken than You Think  

Christy Ford Chapin ▪ June 14, 2017

How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?



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Who Killed Obamacare?  

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ Spring 2017

Why did the ACA—the first substantial expansion of the U.S. welfare state in nearly half a century—fail to win over the constituency it deserved?



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