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Picking off Democratic incumbents is still part of the plan.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won reelection, as did other members of her Squad, but progressives turned no red seats blue. | AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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Progressives started 2020 with the White House within their reach.
They’re ending it in a much more familiar place: on the march in ultra-liberal areas, but still without any mainstream electoral breakthroughs at the national level.
It’s a demoralizing conclusion to a year that began with so much promise. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised hundreds of millions of dollars in grassroots donations and even seized the lead at different times in the presidential primary, but their bids for the highest office stalled. The left also hoped this would be the year it proved that its bold message could capture swing seats in Congress but that effort flopped, too.
Amazon launched Amazon Pharmacy, a delivery service for prescription medications.
The service allows customers to purchase prescription medications with or without insurance.
It boasts that Amazon Prime members can save up to â80 percent off generic and 40 percent off brand name medications when paying without insurance.â
Experts say Amazon Pharmacy has the potential to improve drug pricing in the United States, but it likely wonât be a game-changer since it will work within the same system as other online pharmacies.
Despite its boasting, Amazon Pharmacy pricing doesnât really offer much of a discount.
Amazonâs blue delivery vans have quickly become ubiquitous around the nation, delivering everything to peopleâs doors, from essential daily items to live insects.
Controlling the Narrative: Industry-Led Misinformation in the Great Health Care Debate
Controlling the Narrative: Industry-Led Misinformation in the Great Health Care Debate
December 15, 2020
Over the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health insurance providers have long initiated against universal health care systems. During Potter’s tenure at Cigna, the health care giant regularly used misleading anecdotal evidence and methodologically questionable data to attack Canadian-style health care reforms in the United States – such as the Affordable Care Act and, more recently, proposals espousing Medicare-for-All – and thereby preserve the profitability of private insurers. Potter’s bombshell admissions are symptomatic of the larger, dangerous mythology that health care industry advocates have perpetuated amidst increasing calls for universal coverage in the US. By spreading falsehoods regardin
While many countries around the world are looking at American healthcare with confusion (and horror), for most Americans, this is everyday business they have to go through. Shockingly, a December 2019 poll by Gallup showed that 25% of Americans say they or their family member have delayed medical treatment for a serious illness due to the costs of care. Another 2019 study from the American Cancer Society found that a whopping 56% of American adults have at least one medical financial hardship.
But the real scope of the problem with the American healthcare system becomes evident in the stories from people who had to experience it firsthand. Just like this anonymous person who recounted an incident at the mammogram office and shared it on Imgur. The post starts with a mammogram office calling in to tell the person bad news, and fortunately or not, it’s not health-related.