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PUBLIC HEALTH

Choosing, using, and losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit

In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The power of a very cold plunge
The mental and physical benefits of swimming in frigid waters are finally becoming better understood.

Joan Vennochi
Charlie Baker’s wife doesn’t want to find needles outside her home — neither does anyone else
Unlike Lauren Baker, most people who face that ugly reality can’t get a judge to stop it from happening.

Michael A. Cohen
This year, voting like your life depends on it rings true
Trump is ignoring the coronavirus, putting tens of thousands of American lives in jeopardy. If he is reelected, this tragedy will continue.

Scot Lehigh
The president fights facts with attacks
Donald Trump stands for himself while Anthony Fauci stands for the truth about the coronavirus.

Renée Graham
Republican senators socially distance from Trump
With their Senate majority at risk, GOP senators aren’t choosing country over party. They’re choosing party over a presidency in ruins.

Jennifer Nuzzo
The worst of the coronavirus pandemic could still be to come
The rise and fall in COVID-19 cases is largely under our direct control. There is nothing inevitable about it.

EDITORIAL
Let’s hear from Mark Pearlstein
The public wants to know more about the Holyoke Soldiers Home tragedy, and the independent investigator has the ability to illuminate us.

EDITORIAL
Neglect has become far too common at ICE detention centers
Unwanted gynecological surgeries at a Georgia immigration jail are just the latest alleged abuses in a system that over-relies on for-profit companies.

EDITORIAL
The swamp became a cesspool
The Trump White House misled the American public about the pandemic, while informing wealthy campaign donors who profited. This happened under a president who promised to ‘drain the swamp.’

LETTERS
From quality of life to end of life, there’s a crying need for policy solutions
Stakeholders, advocates, and observers share policy views in reaction to the Globe Spotlight Team's "Last words" series.