The coronavirus called America’s bluff: Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself
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Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects
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Italy’s foreign minister hails Chinese coronavirus aid
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Georgia is the second state to delay their primaries over the coronavirus
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Everyone travelling to New Zealand from overseas to self-isolate
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Louisiana is postponing its April 4 presidential primary for over two months due to the coronavirus outbreak
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US President Donald Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
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California hotels are being used for coronavirus quarantines, Gavin Newsom announces
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Everyone’s a socialist in a pandemic: Republicans want Medicare for all, but just for this one disease
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Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus
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Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing
9 votes -
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Health ministers squabble over face masks at coronavirus talks
5 votes -
UK Chief Medical Officer answers coronavirus questions from MPs
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Official: White House didn't want to tell seniors not to fly
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Other countries are testing patients for coronavirus by the tens of thousands. Why the U.S. is so far behind
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How to respond to COVID-19
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Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone
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Japanese Prime Minister asks all elementary, middle and high schools nationwide to close until late March to help control the spread of COVID-19
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How the Coronavirus revealed authoritarianism’s fatal flaw
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns
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Wuhan virus: China confirms human-to-human transmission, says medical workers infected
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US Congress raises legal age to buy tobacco products to 21
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Germany makes measles vaccination compulsory
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The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations
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The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise
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We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough
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Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
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The US Food and Drug Administration is finalizing a plan to clear the market of all unauthorized flavored e-cigarette products to help combat youth usage
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A US doctor shortage is looming, and a Bill Clinton-era policy is partly to blame
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Why a "public option" isn't enough
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Twenty-two states considered eliminating the ‘tampon tax’ this year. Here’s what happened
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San Francisco bans sales of e-cigarettes
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
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It is official, the smoking age will be 21 in Texas
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Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks
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The subtle ways cities are restricting abortion access
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Ten years after abortion doctor's brutal murder, one woman carries the fight for reproductive rights
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Abortion clinics reported a surge in trespassing, vandalism and a historic high of picketing
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An afternoon with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Texas Anti-Vaccine Movement
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New Zealand parliament to consider Euthanasia/Assisted Dying Bill in conscience vote
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Decline in HIV infections stalls as Trump administration aims to end epidemic
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Donald Trump Administration blocks US funds for Planned Parenthood and others over abortion referrals
15 votes -
Thailand approves medical marijuana in New Year's 'gift'
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Indigenous Canadian women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
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What stops some US states from providing universal healthcare on their own?
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question. Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more...
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question.
Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more into the socially liberal side of the spectrum from providing universal healthcare (or at least some better healthcare policies) on their own?
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Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
4 votes