Posts Tagged ‘trumpcare’

The Collapse Of Trumpcare And The Rise Of Single Payer

Above Photo: Kaytee Riek/ Flickr Two major developments in September upended US healthcare politics. The month’s end saw the failure of a last-ditch blitz by Senate Republicans to dispatch the Affordable Care Act (ACA) via the Graham-Cassidy bill, a painful defeat for opponents of Obamacare, including President Trump. And on 13 September, Senator Bernie Sanders’ single-payer […]

Thank Disability Rights Activists, Not John McCain For Defeat Of Trumpcare

Protesters supporting people with disabilities gather outside the White House in Washington, May 15, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh) Following the Senate’s vote on Friday that dealt a crushing blow to the GOP’s hopes of repealing Obamacare, major media outlets, Democratic lawmakers, and high-profile pundits singled out Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) vote against the so-called “skinny repeal” measure as the […]

Civil Resistance Helped Kill Trumpcare – On To Medicare For All

Above Photo: A protester holds up a sign during a rally against the GOP health care plan, on Capitol Hill, July 26, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images) “Our problem is civil obedience.” — Howard Zinn, 1972 The latest incarnation of Trumpcare, the GOP’s regressive plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act […]

Trumpcare Is Dead. ‘Single Payer Is The Only Real Answer’

Above Photo: AP.  President John F. Kennedy gestures during his speech before a rally on medical care for the aged at New York’s Madison Square Garden on May 20, 1962. THANKS TO A PAIR of defections from more GOP senators late yesterday, the Republican plan to repeal and replace or simply repeal the Affordable Care Act is dead — for […]

BREAKING: Senate Exempts Themselves From Trumpcare, Get Special Benefits

Groopspeak| Senate Republicans are exempting themselves out of a revised Senate health care bill that lets insurers offer plans without essential health benefits like maternity care or mental health services. The exemption will mandate that Congress has access to these benefits. Per Vox: Insurers can offer plans without these benefits — unless they’re selling coverage to […]

The Big Picture – The Upside of the TrumpCare Ugliness

The Big Picture – The Upside of the TrumpCare Ugliness By The Big Pictureyoutube.com Big Picture Panel: Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op & Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research. Even if it passes and decimates the healthcare system as we know it – has Trumpcare already made single-payer inevitable For more […]

Ohio Man Documents Cost Of Daughter’s Cancer Treatment To Highlight Danger Of Trumpcare

(Photo: Eric Meyer) The nearly $2 million in hospital bills was the result of receiving treatments for only 10 months. Any day now, the Senate will stop revising and vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), which is the Senate version of the original American Health Care Act, and has been dubbed Trumpcare for short. There […]

Replacing TrumpCare and ObamaCare with Co-opCare

Above photo: Ithaca Health Alliance. From Ithaca.com. Few are satisfied with America’s medical insurance system, but many resist abrupt change. Conservatives want smaller government and more individual responsibility. Liberals fear abandonment of the poor and elderly. Everyone dreads premium increases. Yet there is a path that’s both liberal and conservative, which relies on a genuinely […]

Trumpcare is Going to Kill Millions (I Wish)

Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer June 25, 2017 The Democrats are selling Trumpcare as though it will kill millions. What I think they don’t seem to understand is that most Americans want to see millions of people dead – especially fat people, people with HIV, mutants and so on. This “millions will die” argument […]

The Big Picture – Can The Democrats Blockade TrumpCare?

The Big Picture – Can The Democrats Blockade TrumpCare? By The Big Pictureyoutube.com Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op & Bryan Pruitt, RedState. With a vote on the still-secret Republican healthcare bill scheduled for sometime next week – Democrats are finally taking action to try and stop Mitch McConnell and the GOP. But will […]

Trumpcare Proves Politicians Are Willing To Challenge The Healthcare Industry

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 8, 2017. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)  Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) recently approved by the Republican-controlled House is a truly terrible bill. It would cause millions to lose Medicaid […]

How GOP Governors Paved the Way for the Trumpcare Threat We Face Today

Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show New Jersey Congressman Tom MacArthur got a 5 hour talking to by more than 300 of his constituents at a recent town hall meeting. MacArthur is responsible for penning a new amendment to the original Trumpcare bill that gave states the right to […]

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