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It ain’t over ’til the Fat Lady doesn’t worry about her Medicaid being cut off
Yes, it’s great that John McCain seems to have thrown a wrench into the Graham-Cassidy Repeal-and-not-really-Replace mess. But three things to consider: There’s still a week-plus before the end of the...
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Arguing about rights is two parts semantics, one part cruelty
Is health care a “right”? Well, US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) clearly doesn’t think so. Like food and shelter, he considers them “privileges.” Do you consider food a right? Do you consider clothing a...
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Oh, hey, look, Congress uninsured 9 million children and pregnant women
Though, to be fair, it wasn’t through some intentional belt-tightening free-marketing tax-cutting cruelty-injecting policy action, but by simply never getting around to renewing the CHIP program....
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You don’t think they’re trying to sabotage the ACA, do you? Well, of course!
Reduced enrollment period, weekend outage windows, reduced assistance budget, reduced advertisement / reminders about enrollment … it’s almost as if they want ACA exchange usage to go down, especially...
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Trump panders to theocrats, at the cost of LGBT and Women
Because of course he did. First off, he expanded the ease of letting companies off the hook for the contraception mandate. “Gee, we’re devoted religiously to not spending money on our female employees...
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For all you cretins saying “Why bother helping Puerto Rico recover?”
… and then adding, implicitly or explicitly, “It’s not like they’re real Americans anyway, amirite?” Believe it or not, and ignoring the human toll on the island that you seem to be so willing to do...
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When drug companies want MORE side effects
When humans hears a long, laundry list of things, they tend to tune it out. The result? If you list a dozen possible serious side effects of a drug, people will be concerned. If you list a dozen...
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“Death Panels” have always been real
One of the great calumnies of the original debate over the ACA — and one still heard today — is that it would set up “death panels” that would make life-or-death decisions over the people they...
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When is a “bailout” not a bailout?
It’s demonstrable that arguing Donald Trump’s policy proclamations are incoherent at best, dishonest at worse, is a futile gesture, as neither Trump nor his most rabid supporters care. But it’s still...
View Article“The Miracles of Jesus under Trumpcare”
Ah, Compassionate Conservatism® at its most sacred. What Would Jesus Legislate for Health Care? Find out! (What’s that you say? The GOP has given up on repealing the ACA? Ha. They’ll hit it from...
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How Health Care and the Free Market collide, with unfortunate results
Health Care has faded a bit from the immediate set of Things the GOP Are Doing That Are Going To Hurt A Lot of People (in favor of some other things), but it’s worth bookmarking this particular...
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Practicing medicine without … a computer?
So this initially heart-tugging tale of a rural doctor who’s been practicing medicine in Maine since 1968, has never bought (or learned how to use) a computer, now being forced out of medicine by the...
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How would you feel if your surgery was up to a community vote?
Should the surgery you want — the surgery you feel you need — be circulated among the community and local churches for their approval? washingtonpost View on Google+ The post How would you feel if your...
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Donald Trump is very proud that a minority of people approve of him
You can always tell when Donald Trump has a polling result that isn’t wretched: he immediately tweets about it, even if the rest of the time he studiously ignores the polls (and just makes handwaving...
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Guns and Nutters
I’m all in favor of getting people access to the mental health they need. But what if they don’t want it? We are, in this country, very sensitive to civil liberties. So in case it hasn’t escaped you,...
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How odd. ACA info has been deleted from the Medicare site
Regardless of how one feels about the Affordable Care Act, it not only remains the law, but people on Medicare remain interested how the ACA interacts with that program. Unfortunately, you can’t find...
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In case you thought all that ACA Repeal stuff was dead and gone
It’s not. The GOP are just waiting for a November win to get rid of the ACA, including pre-existing medical conditions (vague promises to the contrary notwithstanding). They’ve actually said that....
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Trump finds a new avenue of attack on the ACA
Donald Trump has made “Repeal (and, I guess, Replace)” of the Affordable Care Act one of his priorities since Day 1 of his election. He’s tried (and failed) to wrangle Congress into doing it for him....
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The Enduring Fantasy of Trump’s Bestest Ever Beautiful GOP Health Care Plan
Donald Trump and the GOP held a majority in both the House and the Senate for the first two years of his presidency. Despite the fact that Donald campaigned in 2016 on replacing the ACA with something...
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Trump just likes being mean to people
I find it difficult to believe that Trump has particular feelings, one way or the other, over care and treatment of transgender kids, except that it makes a convenient cudgel for him to rile up the...
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