Tag: healthcare
Bernie says Democrats will fight to protect Planned Parenthood from defunding
“Republicans in Congress have returned to their old obsession of trying to defund Planned Parenthood.”
The three big reasons Republicans can’t replace Obamacare
Except the prospect of more than 20 million people losing their health insurance, and a huge redistribution from the working class to the very rich.
Mike Pence sees a ‘real opportunity’ to gut health care for...
Trump’s White House will likely go along with efforts to block grant Medicaid.
The Republican Medicare plan is an atrocity
It only takes three Republican senators to stop it.
Obamacare’s biggest problem is profit, not government
Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.
Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System is Inevitable
If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.
Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.
America’s 21st Century Government: The Worst In This Country’s History?
“This 21st Century U.S. government’s achievements are virtually non-existent while its failures are monumental. That’s why I believe that historians of the future will conclude that it is the worst in American history.”
‘Hands Off My Birth Control’: Activists Demand US Supreme Court Protect...
'Denying any woman the healthcare she needs and is guaranteed by law is discrimination, plain and simple'
Video: Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about presidential contenders, and whether or not everyone has a basic right to healthcare.
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David Huitema confirmed as ethics Czar amid fears of Trump’s return and conflict of...
As Trump’s second term looms, the Senate confirmed David Huitema to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Advocates praise the move, but critics warn of a tough road ahead for government accountability.
The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround
A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.
Tlaib, ACLU, and advocates warn H.R. 9495 could empower Trump to silence nonprofits and...
Progressives and civil rights groups sound the alarm over legislation that could allow President-elect Trump to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status without evidence, threatening free speech and democracy.
JD Vance hints at Elon Musk’s role in targeting Social Security under Trump’s ‘efficiency’...
Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance reveals Elon Musk could lead a commission to cut federal spending, with Social Security and the Department of Defense as potential targets. The billionaire’s past decision-making raises concerns about the future of essential programs.
The ultimate corporate corruption: Trump appoints Musk to oversee US regulations
Examining the implications of Musk’s appointment to lead Trump’s new department of Government Efficiency and what It means for American democracy.