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The American Healthcare System Is UntenableHow Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor - The New RepublicInvestors’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Surprise Medical Bills - Kaiser Health NewsHow One Employer Stuck a New Mom With an $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby — ProPublicaWith Medical Bills Skyrocketing, More Hospitals Are Suing for Payment - The New York TimesAdy BarkanAdy Barkan Is Running Out of Time to Speak - The New Republic
Examples like that are a frightening demonstration of why Barkan’s advocacy is so powerful: Americans who could be alive are dead now, silenced by the policy decisions we have made together.
The Kids Are Calling It “Water”Are We the Most Hydrated We’ve Ever Been? - MEL MagazineInterior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head“Guys, we’re really trying to give our money away, but it’s so hard you guys” —Billionaires, apparentlyTech’s top 20 billionaires keep getting richer no matter how much money they give away - VoxBill Gates and Elizabeth Warren are tweeting at each other about wealth inequality - The VergeRich Computer ManEpisode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Part I) — Bill Gates and Western MediaOr maybe we could all work lessKamala Harris’s new proposal to lengthen the school is completely backwards - The OutlineThe Leisure Agenda ❖ People’s Policy ProjectThe Productivity–Pay Gap - Economic Policy InstituteThe Productivity-Pay Gap ChartYou’re not crazy and it’s not your faultThinking a lot lately about how liberating this idea can beIt can be so empowering to say those two things, but it’s the two things those in power consistently witholdEp. 30: It’s Not Your Fault (w/ Michael Moore & Meagan Day)Video versionCompanies and politicians have serious incentives to convince you that you’re to blame for your own situation, so that they have a free hand to plunder