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case is continued to trend downward in the hardest hit states in the country, even as hospitals

teeter at the brim.

As new evidence emerges about the efficacy of boosters, an FDA panel recommends them

for people who are immunocompromised for over 65, but not the general public.

Three moderate Democrats are trying to tank legislation to empower Medicare to negotiate

prescription drug prices.

This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-El-Sahed.

In theory, in our democratic society, our government is by the people and for the people.

That system of government may lend to a lot of chaos and noise as the will of the people

shifts every two to four to six years.

But in theory, at least, it should deliver the goods and services that people need to

live dignified lives.

But the nature of that idea, by the people and for the people, has always been contested.

After all, at the very moment that those ideas were being written, women, black people,

even non-land-owning white men, were considered people at all.

And because they were explicitly excluded from the conception of the people, the government

has long since failed in ways big and small to serve them.

Today, though there's no doubt that we've made strides in establishing far greater representation

for women, people of color, sexual minorities, and low-income people, we still remain so

far from true representation.

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