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Report: Cases Of Elderly Dementia To Nearly Triple By 2050

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House GOP Votes To Fund Government, Kill Obamacare

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Americans' Upside-Down View Of Medicare's Problems

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AFL-CIO Reaffirms Commitment to Single Payer–Demands Fixes to ACA

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The just concluded AFL-CIO convention reaffirmed its commitment to a single payer health care system while demanding that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) be fixed to protect Taft-Hartley (multiemployer) plans, to end the excise tax, to make employers cover workers who average 20 hours a week, to require construction companies with 5 or more employees to provide health care, to penalize companies who dump their workers onto Medicaid, plus more.

Some of the debate on the resolution can be seen here:

Full text of the resolution can be found here.

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