Category Archives: Health Care Reform

Healthcare By Any Other Name, Right, Mitt?

It has been abundantly clear that gop opposition to the Affordable Care Act is based solely on its introduction and support from President Obama and Democratic politicians. It’s elements, from the insurance mandate – a republican idea proposed numerous times … Continue reading

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Will the Supreme Ct Keep Health Insurers From Paying Out Refunds?

If three-quarters of all adults in the US were to receive a check for from several hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars between now and August 1, or were they to receive a 10% or more reduction in their … Continue reading

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Wipe Away the Phony Bluster and All Romney Does Is Lie, Lie, Lie

The headlines after law night’s GOP debate were all about the bluster and acrimony between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich – Romney’s chronology of misdeeds by Gingrich and Gingrich’s whisking them away by saying Romney is a “poor historian”. Buried … Continue reading

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Perry v Romney: Health Care in Texas and Massachusetts

If there is any single issue upon which all republican Presidential candidates agree, it is that the Affordable Care Act and any similar attempt to provide affordable medical care to US residents is an abomination to be scorned, ridiculed, and … Continue reading

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Prosperity COULD Be Around the Corner

Cut, Cap, and Balance. Grim Reaper Party. Tea Klux Klan. Tea Bagger House. These people are dangerous. And much of the American citizenry, thanks to Rupert Murdoch’s garbage network of LIES, DECEIT and pure, unadulterated CRAP, thanks to Citizens United, … Continue reading

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Time to Reign In California’s Corrupt Initiative, Referendum, and Recall Process

California’s greatest governor, and the founder of the Progressive Party, Hiram Johnson, swept into power in the election of 1910, bringing with him the most sweeping governmental changes California has ever seen. Among those changes was the introduction of direct … Continue reading

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American Citizens Showing Passion Over Proposed GOP Budget

The health care reform debates of a couple of years ago were for the most part well orchestrated and scripted phony demonstrations, financed by the health insurance industry and additional corporate and super rich interests, and aimed at producing a … Continue reading

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Protect the American Empire. At All Costs

Cut back on Pell Grants (kids don’t need college), reduce Head Start (kids don’t need kindergarden), stop Hot Lunch programs (kids don’t need food), reduce enforcement of workplace safety laws (workers are fungible goods – one gets hurt, fire him … Continue reading

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K-V Pharmaceuticals Tops the List of Big Pharma Crooks

Makena is a synthetic form of progesterone that is highly effective in combating the risk of premature delivery. Pregnant women who are at risk receive weekly injections for periods of four to five months. Until a few weeks ago, injections … Continue reading

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Are the Days of the US Numbered? The End Will Come From Within

Over the centuries, there have been numerous attempts to wipe out Judaism, including the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian Pogroms, and the Holocaust, to name only a few. Yet, Judaism has survived, only to face its greatest obstacle to survival, destruction … Continue reading

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Tea Bagger House Insults America while Senate Gets Something Right

The prevailing view among intelligent Americans is that the ultra conservative tea party house has wasted valuable time introducing and passing meaningless bills meant to placate their vapid base of uninformed, uncaring, and uneducated zealots. A closer look, however, reveals … Continue reading

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The Aftermath – “The Narrative is Disassociated from the Facts”*

Wednesday night on his MSNBC show, Lawrence O’Donnell asked the question, was the outcome of Tuesday’s election due to the Democrats being too liberal, not liberal enough, or due to the economy? His esteemed guests, including former Senate majority leader … Continue reading

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