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How We Compare: American Kids More Likely To Die Than In Other Rich Countries
A staggering report on healthcare for children in the United States makes it clear: kids are dying, often unnecessarily, because they don’t have the same access to care that children have in other wealthy democracies. The statistics...
- Posted January 10, 2018
Obamacare Enrollment Opens at Record Numbers
According to a report from the Hill, the number of people signing up for Obamacare at the launch of open enrollment is surging compared to past years. On just the first day, some 200,000 Americans signed up...
- Posted November 8, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. Makes Terrible Halloween Analogy To Complain About Taxes
President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted an image of his daughter with her trick-or-treat candy, and captioned it with a terrible analogy to taxation. There are glaring problems with this tweet, which several users...
- Posted November 1, 2017
GOP Rep Wants Emergency Rooms To Be Able To Refuse Patients
Tennessee Congresswoman Diane Black (R) would like to change the law that requires hospital emergency rooms to treat everyone who comes through the door. The inevitable result will be – just as with the GOP healthcare proposals...
- Posted October 19, 2017
Which States Will Suffer Most from Obamacare Sabotage?
Last week, consulting firm Avalere issued a report about how insurers and states all across the country will feel the effect of President Trump’s decision to eliminate cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments — his latest move to try to damage...
- Posted October 18, 2017
Does Congress Have An Alzheimer’s Problem?
Since even before Donald Trump was elected president there have been doubts regarding his mental health and stability. Speculation on his psychiatric fitness to serve as the U.S. chief executive have increased over his time in office...
- Posted October 13, 2017
Trump Used To Hate Executive Orders Before He Loved Them
Hypocrisy isn’t an uncommon feature of American politics, and it’s present within both conservatism and liberalism. But Republican President Donald Trump seems to be making it into an artform. Consider the executive orders he’s made. This week,...
- Posted October 13, 2017
Congress Drops The Ball On Reauthorizing CHIP
Congressional Republicans have spent so much of the past few weeks trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans that they have largely ignored the deadline to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is...
- Posted September 29, 2017
Susan Collins Says No — Graham-Cassidy Fails To get 50 Votes
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the third Republican U.S. Senator to signal she will vote against the latest incarnation of TrumpCare, also known as Graham-Cassidy. Collins made her announcement on Monday evening, noting that the process by...
- Posted September 25, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Let Up On Bill Cassidy
Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel kept up his criticism of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Tuesday night, once again taking him to task about the much-maligned version of healthcare that he and his cohort, Sen. Lindsay...
- Posted September 21, 2017