The much talked about and shared article featured in TIME Magazine in March earlier this year, titled “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” is a serious, exhaustively reported piece about the problem the U.S. health care system has become. The article, by Steven Brill, has created unusual buzz in Washington; it spares no vested interest.

via How Ordinary Medical Bills Are Pushing Us To Bankruptcy.

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GREG PALAST’S COLUMN

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The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon, to hear the FBI and the Boston Police tell it, is solved: One bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is dead, gunned down by police and then run over for good measure by his fleeing brother Dzhokhar, who was captured a day later in a citywide manhunt, after being hit by a fusillade of police bullets fired into a trailered pleasure boat he was hiding in.

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