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$3,278 ER Visit for Coughing Fits and Fever Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Highlights Failure of For-Profit System
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'Massive Giveaway to Health Insurance CEOs': Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it."
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The Trump Administration's "Monstrous Idea": Direct Payments in Exchange for Cuts to Social Security Benefits
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump and his administration will stop at nothing to cut Social...
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'Outrageous, Callous, and Cruel': Seniors Rip Trump for Holding Covid-19 Relief Hostage to Push Social Security Cuts
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's actions are a war on seniors. He is insisting on threatening Social...
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Trump Says He Won't Approve Covid-19 Package Without Tax Cut That Offers Zero Relief for 30 Million Newly Unemployed
Health workers greet people as they arrive in cars at a mobile Covid-19 testing site at the Westside Community Center in the Goldsboro neighborhood of Sanford, Florida on April 23, 2020.
As Millions Stripped of Health Coverage Amid Covid-19, House Dems Unveil Bill for Emergency Expansion of Medicare and Medicaid
'Pathetic': Trump Says No to Additional Covid-19 Stimulus Checks, Backs Cutting Tax That Funds Social Security Instead
Progressives Urge Biden to Back 'Medicare for Kids' in Appeal to Sanders Supporters
'Code for Massive Cuts': Audio Shows GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Telling Donors She Wants 'Changes' to Medicare, Medicaid
Sanders Says GOP Budget Chair Won't Hold Hearing on Trump Plan Because It Would Expose President as 'Fraud That He Is'
Mnuchin Admits Trump's Budget Cuts Social Security Even as President Claims He Is 'Not Touching' the Program
'Of, By, and For the 1%': Sanders Condemns Trump Budget as 'Immoral Document' Designed to Hurt Families
Trump Budget to Propose 'Savage' Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security While Hiking Pentagon and Wall Funds
'Cruelty Is the Point': Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions
'He Gave Away the Game': Doctors Condemn Trump Threat to Slash Medicare Funding
US President Donald Trump looks back as a question from the press is shouted after a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Would Cut Social Security, Medicaid, & Medicare

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People to Congress: Enroll Uninsured Laid-Off Workers in Medicare
Americans for Tax Fairness
The Art of the Scam: Trump Threatens Cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid to Pay for More Tax Cuts for the Rich
The Main Street Alliance
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National Nurses United
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Social Security Works
Trump Once Again Proposes to Cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Americans for Tax Fairness
776 National and State Groups Sign Letter Opposing Round 2 of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts
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