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How Kamala Harris rebranded Medicare for All
And why advocates of single payer should be concerned about her becoming VP
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Artie Vierkant
Break up the nursing homes
How America's long-term care crisis collided with the pandemic, and how to undo it
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Artie Vierkant
Want to bend the curve? Abolish police and prisons
Prisons and jails were a public health crisis before the pandemic. In the middle of one, they're an engine for mass producing infection
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Artie Vierkant
Pulling deaths from the future
How is it that we've normalized mass death during the pandemic?
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Artie Vierkant
Waiting for the dole
The cold calculus of not acting on unemployment insurance in the middle of the pandemic
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Artie Vierkant
To Avoid A Prolonged Depression, Pass Medicare for All Immediately
The United States faces a health crisis of its own making, set to collide headfirst with the pandemic
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Artie Vierkant
Who shall live?
Welcome to Health and Capital
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Artie Vierkant
Health and Capital
Health and Capital
On the intersection of health and capitalism in America, and the policies that uphold systemic inequities.

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