This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care : washingtonpost

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This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care

This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care

Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)It was the early 1960s, and 9-year-old Eliseo Pérez-Stable was at home in Miami with the chickenpox, dreading his return to the third grade.Nearly a year had passed since his parents in Cuba — fearful of the communists' rise to power — had sent him out of that country with his grandparents, and he still couldn't grasp English.


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The health care sector has only lagged this badly twice, and once was when Clinton was in the White House

The health care sector has only lagged this badly twice, and once was when Clinton was in the White House

The health care sector has been particularly vulnerable to comments from Hillary Clinton, who sent biotech careening in September of 2015.That was when she tweeted about price gouging after revelations about gigantic price hikes by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals.That sent the popular IBB ishares Nasdaq Biotech ETF down by about 20 percent in just a few weeks last fall, and the IBB bottomed with a near 33 percent decline by February.


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Prescription for universal health care is a bitter pill

Prescription for universal health care is a bitter pill

The appeal of Amendment 69 for so many Coloradans is painfully obvious.The initiative for a single-payer health care system makes sense to anyone who has needed an EpiPen or a prescription for Hepatitis C, who has watched his take-home pay shrink while his insurance premiums and deductibles continue to soar, anyone whose blood boils when she hears about the outrageous salaries paid to CEOs of hospital corporations and health insurance companies, and everyone who watched the support explode for an obscure Democratic socialist presidential hopeful from Vermont who campaigned for a "Medicare-for-all single-payer" health care system.The inherent limitations of Obamacare have become increasingly clear.