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Watch Out: Zombie Obamacare Repeal Is Back, On the Move, and May Be Close to Having the Votes to Pass
TrumpCare is back. REPEAT: TrumpCare is back.
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Something To Read While the Senate Votes On Repealing Obamacare and Killing Tens of Thousands of Americans Annually
This Frank Rich piece in New York Magazine back in March is worth a second reading… There’s no way liberals can counter these voters’ blind faith in a huckster who’s sold them this snake oil. The notion that they can be won over by some sort of new New Deal — “domestic programs that would […]
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Elizabeth Warren Says It’s Time for a Single Payer Healthcare System
Elizabeth Warren Astrid Riecken / Getty Images While Republicans keep on struggling to repeal Obamacare, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has decided it’s time to move beyond the stale fight over our current system and get a newer, better system: single payer. If you haven’t been tracking Warren’s statements closely, you might be surprised to learn […]
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CBO Report On Senate Health Care Bill: 22 Million Will Lose Health Insurance
And tens of thousands will die—annually—as a result. NYT: The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured that the House version would create, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget […]
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Guest Editorial: Parents, Now is the Time to Talk to Your Gay Teen about PrEP
Getty Being a teenager is hard, but being the parent of a gay, bisexual or transgender teenager presents its own set of challenges. The journey is often full of difficult, awkward, and emotional moments, especially when it comes to the topic of sex. As parents, it can be hard to know how to help your […]
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Barack Obama on Trumpcare: “This Bill Will Do You Harm”
President Barack Obama has weighed in on the Senate’s anti-woman, anti-elderly, anti-decency, anti-life bill. Steffi Loos / Getty Nobody sums up the Senate’s version of Trumpcare better than Barry O: “Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family—this bill will do you harm.” If you’ve already called […]
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Inmates’ Hospital Bills Are Costing Nearly $1 Million More than Expected This Year
And Things Could Grow Far Worse if Obamacare is Gutted
And things could grow far worse if Obamacare is gutted.
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Repeal-and-Go-Fuck-Yourself: Will GOP’s Effort to Destroy Obamacare Get Us to Single-Payer?
So watching Republicans destroy the Republican alternative to a single-payer/Medicare-for-all health care system—because the black guy did it—is prompting some Democrats to embrace single-payer/Medicare-for-all, aka the kind of health care systems they have Israel, Vatican City, and other socialist hellholes. Ezra Klein at Vox: The details of the Senate GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan remain a […]
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It’s Time for America To Have Another Serious Discussion About Mental Illness in the Context of Its President
CNN: “President’s Trump’s cabinet members introduce themselves and offer praise during the first full cabinet meeting.” At Trump’s first full cabinet meeting, which happened yesterday, each cabinet member was compelled (clearly by the president) to sing praises to the president. Ben Carson, the housing secretary, said it was “a great honor” to work for Trump. […]
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Is That Skin Cancer, or Just a Bug?
The Helpful ABCDEs (and Less Helpful LMNOPs) of Checking Yourself Out
Diagnose yourself with our handy ABCDE guide.
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Trump’s Plan: Pass Nothing, Sabotage the ACA, Let Americans Die, Blame Obama
It looks like I called it on yesterday’s Blabbermouth. Eli asked what we thought might happen if the Republicans didn’t manage to pass their Trumpcare/Ryancare/Wealthcare plan—which they would have to do over the objections of AARP, the American Hospital Association, and even rightwing lunatics—and I said they would proceed to monkey-wrench Obamacare, push it toward […]