May 23, 2017 – 7:40 am
The Nation idiotically asks “Why Won’t More American Corporations Support Single-Payer Health Care?” Perhaps they should have read the LA Times Single-payer healthcare could cost $400 billion to implement in California A single-payer healthcare system in California — a galvanizing cause among the state’s progressive flank — would cost $400 billion annually, according to a legislative […]
May 17, 2017 – 8:07 am
Apparently, premiums skyrocketing for Obamacare insurance plans is something new The costs of Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare already are showing up in rate hikes The easiest prediction to make about the healthcare business was that the efforts by Congress and the Trump Administration to sabotage the Affordable Care Act would produce a flood of rate […]
May 16, 2017 – 7:28 am
The same people who were pretty darned supportive of the mandate in Obamacare, which included penalties/fees/taxes for Citizens who failed to have insurance for 60 straight days in a year are now upset that the GOP health bill does something similar GOP Health Bill Penalizes Patients Who Let Insurance Lapse Before he was diagnosed with […]
May 15, 2017 – 7:03 am
Obviously, Democrats are going to have a big problem with this (Politico) In a statement celebrating Women’s Health Week, President Donald Trump on Sunday called on improving health care access for “quality prenatal, maternal, and newborn care,” in addition to ensuring paid family leave for both mothers and fathers. “Ensuring affordable, accessible, and quality health […]
May 6, 2017 – 7:39 am
Repeal is in quotes because the House bill, the AHCA, does not, in fact, repeal Obamacare, otherwise known as the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act. And, it has its own big problems (The Hill) Senate Republicans plan to dramatically overhaul the House ObamaCare replacement bill that passed Thursday and are warning the process could […]
May 5, 2017 – 6:59 am
“Give us control of the White House and Congress, and we’ll repeal and replace Obamacare” we were told since 2010. Well, Republicans have it, and yet House Republicans claim a major victory with passage of health-care overhaul House Republicans on Thursday narrowly passed a controversial bill to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, claiming a major […]
April 26, 2017 – 7:27 am
From the same body that has just placed Saudi Arabia on the Women’s Rights Council, and has featured numerous human rights offenders on the Human Rights Council. The same body that has consistently excused the terrorism from Palestinians against Israel, and typically takes the side of hardcore Islamist regimes, such as Iran over Israel. Which […]
March 31, 2017 – 1:30 pm
You know, the plans that Obama and the Dems promised repeatedly that they could keep. Somehow, this story made it into publication by CNN Before Obamacare, some liked their health care plans better Stacey and Eddie Albert lead pretty healthy lives. She’s a nutritionist. He’s a personal trainer. They rarely go to the doctor, other […]
March 23, 2017 – 8:39 am
Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ie, Obamacare, was passed, Republicans have promised to repeal it in full. That’s why they were elected in a wave to the House in 2010. We were promised this in 2012, 2014, and 2016, adding on “replace” as Ocare took effect. The Ryan “Trumpcare” bill is supposed […]
March 22, 2017 – 9:15 am
It’s a weak bill. It doesn’t fully repeal Obamacare, it still has a penalty, and it doesn’t provide the path towards lower cost health insurance and care that was promised (The Hill) House Republican leaders on Tuesday struggled to pick up votes for their ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, even after President Trump visited Capitol Hill to […]
