Science and Health

As Floodwaters Rage, Rural Areas Are Sacrificed to Spare Louisiana’s Cities As Floodwaters Rage, Rural Areas Are Sacrificed to Spare Louisiana’s Cities

Melissa Harris-Perry says that people in New Orleans need to acknowledge this great sacrifice and work to provide these communities with the health care, housing and education th...

May 17, 2011 / Video / MSNBC

The GOP’s Attack on Medicare Could Be Their Last Battle The GOP’s Attack on Medicare Could Be Their Last Battle

A miscalculation, an overreach and a massively foolhardy and hubristic move is how The Nation's Chris Hayes describes the GOP's attack on Medicare.

May 10, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Stop the Bleeding: An Interview With Medicare Fraud Expert Malcolm Sparrow Stop the Bleeding: An Interview With Medicare Fraud Expert Malcolm Sparrow

How much taxpayer money could government agencies save if they cracked down on scams like healthcare fraud? The answer, suggests a Harvard professor: hundreds of billions of dollar...

May 10, 2011 / Sasha Abramsky

Cut Medicare? No Way! Make It ‘Medicare for All’! Cut Medicare? No Way! Make It ‘Medicare for All’!

Senator Bernie Sanders is back with a plan for real health care reform. Instead of cutting Medicare, as Paul Ryan proposes, he wants to respond to our health-care crisis with ...

May 10, 2011 / John Nichols

Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare

The Senate and the House of Representatives agree: single-payer health care is the only way to provide real coverage for all.

May 9, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya? IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent th...

May 6, 2011 / Anna Clark

In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming

In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming

One of the agencies hardest hit by Congress’s 2011 appropriations bill is likely to be the world’s largest investor in biomedical research, the National Institutes of H...

Apr 11, 2011 / Rachel Riederer

Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare

Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare

The threatened government shutdown was averted, but Democrats agreed to $38 billion in budget cuts. Here's what we'll see in the next negotiations.

Apr 7, 2011 / Editorial / The Editors

Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List? Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List?

If Democrats engage with Republicans on their absurd proposition to cut Medicare, then we will have a real problem.

Apr 5, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List? Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List?

If Democrats engage with Republicans on their absurd proposition to cut Medicare, then we will have a real problem.

Apr 5, 2011 / Video / The Rachel Maddow Show

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