Planned Parenthood has helped thousands of women over the years. This year, Vice President Mike Pence made sure that the organization was defunded. He and his anti-choice cohorts have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood since those faked tapes came out in 2015. They tried to say that the organization sells baby parts. Iowa has […]
During his wide-ranging (and at times bizarre) interview with the New York Times this week, President Trump suggested that young people can buy health insurance for a mere $12 year: “You are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and […]
The Republican effort to repeal Obamacare has hit one snag after another in the last few months. When the House passed its version of a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate concluded it was so extreme that it simply blew the bill up and started over. However, the Senate bill imploded amid opposition […]
During the crafting of the Republican healthcare bill, more than a few GOP senators remarked that President Trump didn’t seem to have a complete grasp of the subject. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana had this to say on Thursday: “I don’t think it’s important for him to understand the policy intricacies of this bill. What’s […]
Most of the conversation surrounding the healthcare legislation currently under debate in the Senate focuses on how it will leave over 20 million people without insurance over the next decade. Less attention has been paid to what the bill will add — namely, an inducement to invest more health savings accounts, or HSAs. HSAs are a […]
Republicans have failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”–again. After being unable to obtain the requisite votes in the Senate to revoke health insurance from over 20 million people in what was nothing more than a tax break for the wealthy disguised as health care reform, the GOP has returned to its corner to lick […]
While President Trump’s preferred diet may be Big Macs and Kentucky Fried Chicken, after the failure of the GOP healthcare bill on Tuesday, it now appears he’ll have to settle for some crow. As if the loss on healthcare wasn’t bad enough, a tweet from 2013 is also coming back to take a bite out […]
Michael Burgess is a Republican Congressman from Texas, but before he was elected, he was a doctor. Yet when he was asked Tuesday evening about the government providing healthcare for people, he sounded like the biggest money-grubbing jerk to ever walk the face of the planet. Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball, Burgess was asked by host […]
After the latest collapse of the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the conservative media is starting to get mighty frustrated. This week the Senate Republicans failed to get enough votes to pass the much-maligned healthcare plan known as Trumpcare version 2.0, with members of the GOP across the philosophical spectrum expressing doubts of […]
President Donald Trump has picked a new head of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Dr Brenda Fitzgerald. She practiced for decades as an OB/GYN, and promoted an anti-aging therapy called “bio-identical hormones,” which has been discredited by mainstream doctors. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) says: “…Evidence is lacking to support superiority claims of […]
When Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) said Monday evening they couldn’t support the GOP repeal and replacement bill for Obamacare, it essentially signaled the end of Republican efforts to pass draconian healthcare legislation this year. But on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, you’d have thought that Lee and Moran had just renounced […]
On Monday evening, when it became clear that two more Senators–Mike Lee and Jerry Moran–would not be supporting the GOP’s healthcare bill when it comes up for consideration, President Trump had a temper tantrum and, as he so often does, took to Twitter so he could vent his spleen: Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare […]
Although some argue it is too early to start talking about the 2020 election when we still have to turn Congress blue next year, talk about whom the Democrats might run against President Donald Trump is beginning nonetheless. There is some mention of New York governor Andrew Cuomo possibly throwing his hat into the proverbial fray. Other […]
Last Friday, Vice President Mike Pence spoke to the National Governors Association, and in his speech he assured them that the Senate healthcare bill would be good for their states and wouldn’t cut Medicaid in the least. That, however, turns out to be a blatant lie. Pence was so pleased with his fabrication regarding the […]
The American healthcare system was ranked last in a recent survey of 11 developed countries. A U.S. think tank, the Commonwealth Fund, conducted the survey using data from the World Health Organization, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and the OECD, among other sources. US Healthcare Is Lowest Ranking Overall The U.K. ranked […]
Late Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he won’t bring up the latest incarnation of the Republican effort to replace Obamacare until John McCain recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot from his right eye. It’s not as if McConnell had a choice. Within hours of the bill being unveiled three days […]
President Trump woke up early on Friday and thought it’d be a great idea to fire off a tweet before he departed France. He sent out this: Republicans Senators are working hard to get their failed ObamaCare replacement approved. I will be at my desk, pen in hand! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, […]
The Senate is set to vote on its healthcare reform legislation as early as this week. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently warned that if the bill fails in the Senate, the GOP might be forced to work with Democrats to implement needed reforms to Obamacare. According to Republican staffers, McConnell issued the warning […]
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was the guest on Meet the Press Sunday, and he got very defensive when host Chuck Todd dared to ask about President Trump’s incredibly hateful and sexists tweets which were aimed at MNSBC host Mika Brzezinski. Price told Todd: “What I’m concentrated on is the job that [Trump’s] given […]
One of the most significant impacts of the The American Health Care Act – the GOP’s long-promised effort to do away with Obamacare – would be its effect on drug treatment centers and drug addicts. If the Senate passes the AHCA, drug treatment centers and substance abuse programs across the country would see widespread budget […]
