Health Care

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Health Insurance Hell

My business, which a couple of friends and I started in 1976, and I have owned outright since 1980, is now down to just one […]

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Why We Should Stop Caring So Much About Breast Cancer

Our managing editor for Phillymag.com thinks that breast cancer awareness has become a huge money-making scheme. Do you agree? In case you’ve been hiding under […]

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What the Hell Happened to the Doctor’s Office?

When I was a kid, doctors still made house calls. I know, I must be a hundred years old, right? But, I’m not. It wasn’t […]

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“A Major Landmark In American History”

For nearly two decades Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, has been one of America’s leading voices on health and medicine. I […]

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To: The Anti-Health Care Tea Baggers (And The Party Of No)

Dear Anti-Health Care Tea Baggers (And The Party Of No), First of all, your name is all wrong, both from a sexual and a historical […]

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How George W. Bush Helped Pass Health Care Reform

“I believe that the will of the people is reflected sooner or later in the will of the government.” So says the only man in […]