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The Student Health Center across from H-Community. COVID-19 vaccinations will no longer be required to attend classes starting this summer. BRIANNE LEDDA/STATESMAN FILE

Breaking down SBU’s student health plan

Matina Douzenis • October 27, 2019
An analysis of Stony Brook University's health insurance coverage.
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The walk-in clinic at the campus recreation center is one of the resources available to students in need of healthcare services. However, many students feel the university attendance policy does not support student health. MARIE MATSUNAGA/STATESMAN FILE

The human cost of health care

Joshua Blake • November 14, 2018
I’ve been receiving intravenous Remicade treatment for the last five and a half years, and it’s sent my ulcerative colitis into remission. It’s allowed me to pursue a college career, and helped me get my life back. Visits to the emergency room are long gone, but not long forgotten.
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The Stony Brook University hospital. Oregon was the first state to codify a right-to-death law in 1997. ARACELY JIMENEZ/STATESMAN FILE

Union fears the repeal of Obamacare will create chaos in hospitals

Michaela Kilgallen • January 29, 2017
According to the press release, 153,000 people in Suffolk County are at risk of losing health insurance.
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Let’s unleash Microsoft’s “Tay” on the presidential campaign

Christopher Leelum • March 31, 2016
Can man — the so evidently fallible ape with amazing capacities for violence, racism and terror — actually create intelligence?
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The great academic rift in the Grand Old Party

The great academic rift in the Grand Old Party

Nick Zararis • March 29, 2016
We need an educated populous to properly participate in a representative democracy. This is where the divide in the Republican Party truly comes from.
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USG Executive Council platform statements: looking back at the year

USG Executive Council platform statements: looking back at the year

The Statesman • April 19, 2015
The Statesman revisited last year’s platform statements to see if the Executive Council members were able to carry out the plans that were promised.
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Government shutdown nothing more than “playground politics”

Jeremy Kline • October 15, 2013
So, imagine this: two groups of people are arguing about something. Neither side is willing to concede anything to the other side, let alone try to reach a compromise. They won’t even meet with the other group of people because they are so entrenched in their own opinions. Does this sound like what you might find on an elementary school playground? Yes, it does. It’s also what is currently happening in the government of one of the most powerful nations on the face of this Earth.
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Stony Brook students are required to be on a health insurance plan and can buy insurance from the university. (NINA LIN / THE STATESMAN)

Affordable Care Act gives students more insurance options

Nina Lin • August 26, 2013

Spring 2014 looks to bring more affordable options than ever in health care coverage—for in-state students and faculty, at least. Come Oct. 1, New Yorkers at Stony Brook may find a chance to start shopping...

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Debate 1: Team Obama

Keith Olsen • October 8, 2012

  Well, that was surprising. Just when it seemed that his campaign had kicked the bucket, Romney lied his way into Frankenstein’s laboratory and brought it back to life with a great performance....

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