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Engaging With Big Pharma: An Interview With Suerie Moon
The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced recently that they would be selling Humalog, their most popular fast-acting insulin, at half price—a reduction that still leaves the drug at $137.35 a vial. This decision comes in the face of intensifying criticism over consistent increases in the drug’s price: according to the Healthcare Cost Institute, the cost…
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How The Wealthy Skirt The Organ Waitlist
You start feeling severe abdominal pain and swelling. Soon you experience fatigue, nausea, and disorientation. You go to the doctor to ask if anything is wrong. The doctor runs tests and gives you a harrowing diagnosis: your liver is failing and you need a new one as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she tells you that…
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Enough About the White Working Class
An emerging theme from the media’s analysis of the 2016 election is that the Democrats failed to connect with the white working class voters in the heartlands that voted in large droves for President Trump. That is, Hillary Clinton should have spent more time in the Rust Belt. There has been a borderline obsession with…
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For Whom The Bus Rolls
BY BRIAN BENTON David took the bus to visit his mother and, maybe more important, because he had just found a transfer pass in his back pocket. Claire was going to work, as she had done almost every weekday for most of the past year and a half, except for the few days when her…
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A Modest Proposal Circa 2013
BY ADAM FLORES It is quite sobering to walk the streets of this city, or any city in this magnificent country and to encounter the numerous dispirited people who call the subway station, the dilapidated apartment, or even the corner outside of a coffeehouse, home. These people find themselves in their situation for a variety…
