Medicaid

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2023
  

  50 Years at Cook County Hospital Prove Abortion is Healthcare

  by Amy Zanoni

  Abortion rights activists have focused on horror stories of the pre-Roe era as cautionary tales, but the history of public hospitals since Roe shows that real reproductive freedom requires expanded access to care and a robust social safety net. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/25/2022
  

  Why "Life of the Mother" Exemptions Vanished From Abortion Restrictions

  by Mary Ziegler

  Exceptions to allow abortions to protect women's lives are popular. They are being eliminated from new abortion bans because the people pushing those bans distrust both women and doctors. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-12-17
  

  GOP misconstruing history by claiming Bill Clinton also wanted to cut Medicaid

  by Gene B. Sperling and Chris Jennings

  That’s what two key Democrats from the Clinton administration say.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-27-17
  

  How the GOP Turned Against Medicaid

  by Joshua Zeitz

  It began as a modest, bipartisan program to help poor children. But as America’s economy hollowed out, Medicaid grew—and Republicans came to oppose it.

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• 7-2-17
  

  The GOP’s Pattern of Denial Is Usually Followed by Acceptance

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That’s what happens with Social Security.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11-23-16
  

  The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s.

  by Josh Zeitz

  The GOP has plans to take apart many of Johnson’s Great Society reforms. Will Trump let them succeed?