More Evidence We Need National Healthcare
While our Republican “friends” decry national health care as threatening “the best healthcare system in the world” (sic), the sad fact is that the current system is kept going for those who can get it...
View ArticleRepublican Smoke And Mirrors On Healthcare
The resistance to the new health care bill, which Republicans can only describe in slurs like “Obamacare” or “the job-killing healthcare bill,” is obviously largely based more on the fear that the poor...
View ArticleThe Insured Are Slaves To Health Insurance, Too
On the old Mississippi plantation I referenced yesterday, the slave might be whipped or even killed for an infraction amounting to nothing more than a small mistake. Small mistakes make up a big part...
View ArticleEven People Who Have Health Care Need National Healthcare. Why?
In these times when no one can be sure what tomorrow may bring, it’s stupid to assume that what you have today you will have tomorrow. Many of those of us who have (or think/assume we have) healthcare...
View ArticleWe Already Have Socialized Medicine, Assuming You Don’t Need It
Conservatives like to threaten us with the possibility of a “European-style socialist state,” as though having universal health care than a system where you can get just the over-priced healthcare you...
View ArticleIneptitude On Women’s Issues Is Dragging The GOP Down
With the economy clearly on the road to recovery, and with most of the public still feeling pretty well about President Obama in other respects, Republican Presidential candidates need something else...
View ArticleHere’s Why Private Medical Care Won’t Work
I think a few quotes will tell the story. They are all from this article: With current trends, the authors say, in less than 20 years the average family will face medical costs that are higher than...
View ArticleThe Surprising Answer To Who Wins/Loses If The Supremes Kill ObamaCare
Many court watchers are saying that, based on the questioning in the Supreme Court, it doesn’t look good for the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as “ObamaCare”). If that happens, it might at first...
View ArticleThe Supremes Approve Obamacare
Yes, “Obamacare” remains the law of the land, meaning that all of the conservative howling about it being unconstitutional was wrong. In effect, the Supremes gave it a pass, even the so-called...
View ArticleThe Mystery Of The Supreme Court’s Support Of “Obamacare”
More to the point, what got into Chief Justice Roberts’ finding of a loophole saving the law based on what court observers thought was the weaker argument on behalf of the law? Cynics might wonder if...
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