Promises Kept? Nope!
Trump’s so-called “deficit-closing” budget foresees $1.1T deficits in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and a $1T deficit in 2022 and that’s after he cuts Medicare by $845B, $241B from Medicaid, demands another $8.6B for WALL, and…
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GOP Readies to Implement their Pay More for Less Healthcare Plans
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created to fix a multitude of problems faced by American citizens Here are some of the reasons people were so upset about healthcare opportunities before the ACA (nicknamed “Obamacare”…
Will The New Administration Help or Handicap Care for Veterans?
Over on Breitbart [the alt-right’s mis-information site] this morning, they’re announcing how the incoming president-elect and his favorite pillagers [healthcare industry CEOs] met on Wednesday to begin a “serious reform of the Department of Veterans Affairs.” He apparently put…
Trumped by a Bait and Switch
Nothing could define better the contrast between D.C. and the American citizenry than Mr. Trump’s picks to lead the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), and the HHS agency overseeing…
The Irony of Ironies via Republican Poison Pills
H.R. 2577 is a conglomeration of a number of bills (Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017) that the Senate needs to take action on failed a super-majority vote (60 votes) for…
ACLU Challenges Law Preventing Studies on ‘Big Data’ Discrimination
For Immediate Release First Amendment Lawsuit Brought on Behalf of Academic Researchers and Journalists Who Fear Prosecution Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act WASHINGTON – A group of university professors and journalists filed a…
So You Think #Medicare4All is a Good Thing?
One of the central tenets of the Bernie Sanders campaign this election cycle is that we should scrap our current process of handling medical care for our nation’s citizens and instead implement a #Medicare4All handled…
‘Worse Than We Thought’: TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
‘President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,’ says Friends of the Earth — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for CommonDreams “Worse than anything we could’ve imagined.” “An act of climate…
The Propagandazation of Religion
I subscribe to way too many blogs and online magazines. Needless to say, as I go through my way too many email accounts, I click through and read a large number of articles each and…
Record El Niño Puts the ‘Icing’ on Global Warming Cake
Human induced climate change will exacerbate the naturally-occurring phenomenon known as El Niño to push global temperatures to record highs by Lauren McCauley A view from space of Typhoon Halong in 2014. Such extreme weather events…