Cutting Costs
Cutting Lives
The Human Cost of Policy Decisions
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Cutting Costs
Cutting Lives
The Human Cost of Policy Decisions
What happens when a government abandons its duty to protect the public’s health? Cutting Costs / Cutting Lives is an ongoing interview series taking viewers inside the human cost of the recent administration’s devastating reductions to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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