I want choice, not a fistful of deeply unhelpful options wrestled, after months, from the banal, cruel system we make poor people navigate to access health care.
Tag: Medicaid
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Do Re #MeToo parodies sexist songs to advocate for abortion rights
Thursday at Metro, Do Re #MeToo brought together an all-star revue of women musicians and comics to parody sexist songs and advocate for abortion rights.
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Officials hope much-hyped drug can slow state’s opioid crisis, but is it worth the costs?
Vivitrol, which costs $1,000 an injection, shows some hope in treating addicts but its aggressive marketing has come under fire, and the drug is not without risks.
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IPRA reopens investigation into 2014 fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old, and other Chicago news
Also, J.B. Pritzker’s health-care plan involves letting anyone buy into Medicaid.
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Madigan’s wish list of demands required for budget deal with Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, a tour of DuSable Museum of African American History is now required for Chicago police recruits.
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Obama at first public post-presidency appearance: ‘It is wonderful to be home,’ and other Chicago news
Also, paper and plastic bag use has dropped by 42 percent since the bag tax was implemented.
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Food trucks could be coming to O’Hare and Midway, and other Chicago news
Also, the Illinois GOP hosted a fund-raiser in honor of Governor Bruce Rauner with tickets up to $40,000 Thursday night.
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Rauner doesn’t think the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan will work in Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Jewish Day School was evacuated because of a bomb threat.
Posted inMusic
Chicago musicians speak up about the Affordable Care Act
Musicians are especially vulnerable to a repeal of Obamacare, and these Chicagoans went on the record to say how.
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What moved LBJ to target poverty?
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was more than a play for votes.
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The solution to our federal budget woes
The deficit is in remission. That’s the good news.
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Fifty years after “I Have a Dream”: Time for a real War on Poverty
The richest nation on earth could afford to win a war on poverty, Lyndon Johnson asserted nearly 50 years ago.
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
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Follow the oath
Rebecca Schanberg’s documentary “Do No Harm,” screening tonight at the MCA, follows a national campaign to expose corruption and discrimination against uninsured patients at nonprofit hospitals.