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NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"An extraordinary book, I can't recommend it highly enough." –Whoopi Goldberg, The View
By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors"...
"An extraordinary book, I can't recommend it highly enough." –Whoopi Goldberg, The View
By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors"...
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Presents twelve articles and essays espousing opposing viewpoints on the topic of health care for teens. Discusses abortion, psychiatric care, and refusal of treatment for religious reasons. Includes a chronology, organizations to contact, and further reading.
4) Health care
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Presents twelve articles and essays espousing opposing viewpoints on the topic of health care for teens. Discusses abortion, psychiatric care, and refusal of treatment for religious reasons. Includes a chronology, organizations to contact, and further reading.
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This program with Bill Moyers examines the role of the media and special interest groups in the demise of national health care reform. More than $100 million has been spent on public relations, advertising, lobbying, and lawyering in connection with the health care debate, and nearly 100 public relations and lobbying firms have influenced it. These facts raise some tough questions about how our democracy works. Did the news media affect, and ultimately...
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In March 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the biggest overhaul of the U.S. health care system in decades. According to a poll eight months later, 49 percent of the American public wanted Congress to repeal all or part of "Obamacare," as detractors call it, while 40 percent favored expanding it or leaving it as is. Will the new law increase the deficit and fail to control costs that are spiraling out of control,...