Adding a public option to the Affordable Care Act would make healthcare more affordable

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Minors should be allowed abortions without parental knowledge

Mature minors should be allowed to make their own medical decisions

Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

A single-payer system could address rising medical costs and expand coverage to all Americans.

Minors should be allowed abortions without parental consent

Parents should be barred from refusing life-saving care for children on religious grounds

Minors should be offered cosmetic surgery only for medical needs

Doctors should be allowed to refuse abortions on conscience grounds

In the United States, prohibitions against young children going to school for public health reasons were detrimental to their health

Abortion should be legal at any stage of pregnancy

Legal abortion is a net benefit to society

The FDA’s electronic data mining is an adequate method for finding unknown mifepristone risks

Louisiana has standing to challenge federal mifepristone distribution rules

Congress should reinstate the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies

Abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape

Federal Medicaid whistleblower rules would weaken state control over program enforcement

Medicaid funding should depend on states protecting workers who expose program fraud

Healthcare price transparency will not lower costs without stronger consumer protections

Healthcare price transparency burdens hospitals with administrative costs that do not lower prices

Punitive damages are a proportionate response to Medicaid whistleblower retaliation

Publishing negotiated healthcare rates encourages providers to copy competitors’ higher prices