American child poverty is not an intractable social problem — it is a policy choice. In 2021, the United States proved this with mathematical precision: by expanding the Child Tax Credit to $3,600 per child and delivering it as monthly…
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The insulin price crisis in America is the story of a century-old, off-patent medication — whose original inventors refused to patent it in 1923 because they believed profiting from a life-saving drug was unethical — being transformed into a financial…
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Pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — extract an estimated $116 billion annually from U.S. drug supply chains through spread pricing, retroactive clawbacks, and vertical integration. The FTC called it 'deeply troubling.' Here's how the scheme works and why Congress won't fix it.
The nursing home staffing crisis is a systemic failure that has left more than 1.2 million Americans in understaffed facilities where the average nursing home operates 25% below adequate staffing levels every single day. Private equity firms, which own between…
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Private equity firms have purchased hundreds of hospitals, loaded them with debt, extracted billions, and in many cases driven them into bankruptcy — leaving communities without emergency care. PE-owned hospitals account for 44% of 2025's largest healthcare bankruptcies and a JAMA-documented 25% increase in patient harm. This is the complete anatomy of the heist.
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The long-term care insurance crisis is the story of an entire industry that sold Americans a promise — pay your premiums for 20 or 30 years, and we’ll be there when your body gives out — then systematically broke it.…
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The mental health crisis in America is not a mystery and it is not an accident. 23.4% of U.S. adults — 61.5 million people — experienced mental illness in 2024. Nearly half of Gen Z always or often feel anxious.…
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The ACA subsidy cliff 2026 hit on January 1st when the enhanced premium tax credits — which had kept health insurance affordable for 22 million Americans since 2021 — expired without a congressional extension. Average marketplace premiums jumped 26% in…
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The opioid crisis is the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, and it was built on purpose. Responsibility for the opioid crisis lies with Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, a captured FDA approval process, a gutted DEA enforcement system, and…
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Medicare costs in 2026 are rising across every major component — Part B premiums jumped to $202.90 per month, the hospital deductible hit $1,736 per stay, and drug plan choices shrank by 22% while 1 in 4 enrollees face premium…
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