Republican Health Plan Shirts and Posters
So my art student daughter created these shirts to express how she feels about the Republican Party’s efforts to repeal ACA and replace it with something to make all their friends rich. We’re selling...
View ArticleHundreds Rally on Long Island to Save Obamacare, Push for Single Payer in NYS
By Karen Rubin, News & Photo FeaturesHundreds rallied at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington (UUFH), Long Island, under the aegis of Long Island Activists, to strategize how to save...
View ArticleMy Shoulder and the ACA
I apologize for putting that image in your head, but this is what the Affordable Care Act has done for me. I am over 51 years old, and I have high blood pressure. I also have health insurance. It is...
View ArticleTrump breaks promise to provide 'insurance for everybody'
After almost seven years, House Republicans have unveiled their Obamacare “replacement” plan, such as it is. But because the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not yet scored the...
View ArticleJason Chaffetz and the iPhone
The French had no bread, and were getting upset.Let them eat cake! said Marie Antoinette.It was just a suggestion but it seemed really mean:What you'd expect from an out-of-touch queen.History repeats...
View ArticleGet With the Conservative Program !
Representative Buy-in Pea-brain cleared his throat loudly in order to bring the disorderly room to order. Raising his big hands above his head, smiling, he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and...
View ArticleCartoon: Obamacare Lite
xVimeo VideoThis has been a head-exploding week so far, and it’s only Wednesday night as I write this. Take your pick, from Donald Trump accusing Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones to Homeland...
View ArticleWhy the rush?
The only way the Unaffordable Care Act passes is in a crisis. But it's chances if their party is in crisis mode are pretty good because none of them actually care about public policy. The...
View ArticleTrumpCare: Sunday Morning Cartoon Roundup
Settle back. For once this is not going to be a long diary full of too many words and links too few follow. I decided today I’d link to a number of cartoons instead, so get ready to do some clicking....
View ArticleConfusing?
If you have read many of my diary entries you know I have been distraught over the incredibly poor decisions the voters have been making as the result of an ignorance I have described as willful. Now...
View ArticleThe Resistance is #StrongerTogether! 3.13.17
Morning all! I have a few doctor appointments this morning so I won't be around until later this afternoon. So chat away and I'll join in when I return.I'm sure top on all our minds is the Trumpcare …....
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My letter to my Congressman: Your ACA Replacement Stinks
This is a letter that I sent today to my North Carolina Congressman, Ted Budd. I am not an experienced blogger here, in fact this is only my second one, so there are no links and no references. This is...
View ArticleCartoon: Ministry of Trump Facts & Information
xVimeo VideoEverything is coming up Russia these days. Besides the hacking, influence and other shadiness, there is a distinctly Soviet propaganda tone to the Trump Administration. (Don’t worry, I’m...
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This says 'Dystopia,' not 'Great Again,' to me. America, I'm quitting you.
The House is set to vote on the diabolical GOP health care plan on Thursday. I noticed they're not calling it "The Greatest Healthcare Plan in the World" anymore.I'm amazed anyone of any ideology would...
View ArticleIf you give a mouse a repeal...
Sometimes, when a person invents a mousetrap, and it's not the BEST mousetrap, but it's the best that can be built at the moment; and hundreds of millions of other people spend 7 years complaining...
View ArticleThe GOP's Bone-Headed View of Obamacare
It’s hard to find a better example of bone-headed Republican ignorance than Georgia Republican Doug Collins, speaking yesterday on the floor of the House about the evils of Obamacare. According to the...
View ArticleAs they cheer on their Trumpcare victory, millions wonder why Republicans...
Campaign ActionBy now we know that as House Republicans passed legislation that has the potential to strip health insurance away from millions of Americans, they celebrated by cheering and drinking...
View ArticleThree take-away Numbers from the CBO Report
—The Washington Post highlights these 3 numbers they want you to remember, from the CBO Report on the AHCA round II (ie. the GOP’s American Health Care Act to replace Obamacare):23 millionThat's how...
View ArticleCall TrumpRyanMcConnellCare What it Is: Murder for Hire
“And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’t you know that?”xxYouTube VideoRepublicans don’t. Mitch McConnell, who has now surpassed Dick Cheney...
View ArticleObamacare (ACA): Gave Me Babies & A Future With Them
I’m a wife and mother of 2 small boys but July of 2013 I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to say those words. A month after my wedding and honeymoon, my husband and I decided we would get checked out and...
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: How the GOP abandoned itself, and why we’re in this...
Yes. I heard you.My latest column was Too Damn Long. Yet I feel deeply compelled to share what I've learned about what may be the most important issue in our lives, the lives of our children and their...
View ArticleGOP begs Dems to help destroy ACA with Lame-o GOP Health Care Bill w/poll
This abomination of a so-called GOP Health Care Bill AKA ultra-weathly tax cut can’t get very many GOP votes. Now the so-called GOP “Moderate” Lindsey Graham is seeking help from Dems to wrap a bunch...
View ArticleRepeal, replace, regret, retreat
If Mika Brezinski has had a face lift, as alleged by the Head Pig, she ought to be hearing from everybody in Hollywood looking for the name of her plastic surgeon. Come to think of it Big Tweet...
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Repeal And Replace ... This.
… you know …or better yet …or more to the point …as long as were at it …could be time to capitalize on the underwhelming popularity of their Lack of Care Bill …or more simply put, just remember: The...
View ArticleI Feel Sick Right Now.
I’m sorry, I am finding it hard to even think right now as I feel like something has died. The New ColossusNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;...
View ArticleMcCain's Speech, Substance or Empty Rhetoric
I'll start this Dialykos diary with a letter to the editor that the L.A. Times responded with a provisional acceptance, but as events changed since Monday it has not been posted, and probably won’t.The...
View ArticleWhy the Republican Trumpcare bills are 183 times deadlier than 9/11/2001.
"Uninsurance is associated with mortality." (3,1)How is these deadly numbers derived? Let's see; the excess deaths are (RR-1)=0.25 to 0.4 times natural death rate in the population, which for insured...
View ArticleDonald Trump is Not Happy Today UPDATE
And he misspelled “majority"x3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July...
View ArticleTrey Gowdy Gives Us The "Skinny"
Trey Gowdy has seen the light. Having spent most of the 2016 election year badgering and investigating Hillary Clinton for email “crimes,” which the FBI, after an extensive investigation, found not to...
View ArticleLA GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy's lies in "telephone" town hall
Yesterday I was invited to participate in Cassidy’s “town hall” (taking place via the coward’s device, the telephone). Callers were invited to call in, but it became obvious that these were either...
View ArticleGambit for Senate Democrats: Re-brand "Medicare-For-All" Bill as "Replace and...
On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders, along with several fellow Democratic Co-Sponsors, will reportedly push a “Medicare-For-All” Bill. I think this is a smart move — after the Republicans’ numerous...
View ArticleGood Lord. The Graham-Cassidy-Heller Trumpcare Bill Is Awful. Time To Pick Up...
xJUST OUT: Here's a summary of the Graham-Cassidy repeal. Yes, it's that bad.Spread far and wide if useful. pic.twitter.com/Z0bbj0qaPdâ Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 13, 2017Estimated 32...
View ArticleState block grants: The GOP’s worst health care idea of them all
Even as the U.S. Census reported that the percentage of Americans lacking health insurance dropped to a new record low of 8.8 percent, the past week was nevertheless a big one for health care reform...
View ArticleApocalyptic Trump or "how I learned to love the Bomb"
Wow! Republicans want to lose next year’s races at all costs. Repeal and replace, yet again? Jimmy Kimmel has every right to be pissed off about it. No CBO score. No Bipartisanship. It will put...
View ArticleIt's Far From Over - Zombie Graham-Cassidy Emerges From Its Friday Burial Crypt.
Andy Slavitt “Ran Medicare, Medicaid & ACA for President Obama.” He’s been tweeting up a storm about Graham Cassidy et al.I believe too many took too much comfort on GC ACA repeal from McCain's...
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By Voting No on Graham-Cassidy John McCain is Courageously Fighting for His...
By Voting No on Graham-Cassidy - John McCain is Showing Heroic Courage and is Fighting for His CountryJohn McCain is trying to save the United States of America by voting against passage of the Graham-...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Graham-Cassidy health care bill is a killer scam
Next week, Congressional Republicans will vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill supposedly designed to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Shockingly, they will do so without a score from Capitol Hill’s...
View ArticleGraham-Cassidy Officially Dead. Update: Drumpf Is Displeased and Disappointed.
Just out: Senator Graham (R-South Carolina Cruelistan) concedes the death of the latest effort to repeal Obamacare. It looks like it is, for real, officially, dead and not just pining for the...
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Nation of the Living Dead
If you have never seen “Night of the Living Dead,” here there be spoilers. The outcome of the 2016 presidential election, however, is well known.The original 1968 “Night of the Living Dead” was a...
View ArticleBREAKING: Trump, Republican Leaders Leave Meeting with Plan to Force Through...
The story below from the Hill is proof of how they’re planning to frame it:Trump backs bipartisan fixes to Obamacare MarketsRead closely: it’s being billed as him making a huge step forward by...
View ArticleCartoon: Trump ends the War on Christmas!
xVimeo VideoIt is the high season for fighting back against the “War on Christmas,” a war that doesn’t seem to actually exist. President Trump is determined to oppose said imaginary war with a...
View ArticleThis is a #TaxScam
xYouTube VideoPaul Ryan refuses to tell us just how much money he’s going to personally make from his tax scam. Call his office and ask him for yourself.Text PAUL to 97779 now. Our system will call you...
View ArticleRepeal and Replace
For the longest time Republicans including Trump have stated that they were going to repeal Obamacare. Not only were they going to repeal Obamacare, but they were going to replace Obamacare with...
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The #IronSOTU
Thanks to you, while Randy Bryce was attending the State of the Union last night, our #IronSOTU live tweet response to Donald Trump was seen and shared by hundreds of thousands of people.With the help...
View ArticleThe GOP's Judicial Activism
The Right is as relentless as ever in trying to dismantle Obamacare, using the courts instead of a legislative process that just last year failed to repeal and replace. This time they hope to kill the...
View ArticleCartoon: Repeal and replace
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View ArticleCartoon: Repeal & give-us-a-minute
xVimeo VideoOnce again, Republicans are caught without an alternative to their nemesis Obamacare. After the Trump administration supported a legal fight to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, President...
View ArticleIt's past time to repeal and replace racist statutes.
xIf you pull down the statues, but you do not pull down the statutes, the laws that support them, then we still have issues. pic.twitter.com/AXrVKGalpS— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber)...
View ArticleRon Johnson is talking Obamacare repeal again, bless his little heart
It’s 2010 all over again for Sen. Ron Johnson. And 2012 and 2014 and 2016 and 2018…. The Wisconsin Republican just can’t let go of Obamacare. Even after Democrats retook the House in 2018 on one...
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