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GOP Leaders Are Now Trying To End Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions, Young Adults
If there is one thing just about every American agrees on, it’s that these two parts of the Affordable Care Act should remain untouched.
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Dealmaker-In-Chief Trump Throws Tantrum, Demands Friday Vote After Failed Health Care Talks
Trump can’t even bring Republicans together to do something they have promised to do for the past seven years.
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New Analysis Finds Trumpcare Would Be Even More Catastrophic Than Originally Thought
Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24 million Americans that will lose health insurance under the plan.
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Trump Attacks Obamacare In Kentucky, Where It’s Insured More Than Half A Million People
If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,†he probably shouldn’t do it in a state that has benefited so much from the law.
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Just Five Minutes Into Louisville Speech, Trump Starts Bragging About Electoral College
Note to Trump: The election was more than four months ago.
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Hundreds Of Protesters In Deep Red Kentucky Greet Trump Ahead Of Third Campaign Rally
While Kentucky is a conservative state that Trump carried by nearly 30 percentage points last fall, it has in many ways become ground zero for the fight over protecting the Affordable Care Act.
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Town Halls Show Participatory Democracy Best Hope of Saving Obamacare and Country
The recent uprisings at Republican town halls are demonstrating the power of the people to withstand and turn back the assault on democracy
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Fox News’s Own Poll Shows That Trump Is Failing As President
As Trump doubles down on defending a disastrous heath care bill, all while peddling paranoid conspiracy theories and covering up his connections to Russia, these numbers aren’t likely to improve anytime soon.
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Fox News Panics After CBO Report And Begs GOP To Immediately Abandon Trumpcare
With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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Trumpcare Is Toxic And Everyone Knows It: Even The White House And Republicans in Congress
One does not need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Paul Krugman to see the achievements of Obamacare and the deathly dangers of Trumpcare.
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Opinion: Social Security Cuts Are On Trump’s Table Despite Campaign Pledge
“There are ways that we can not only allow the president to keep his promise, but to help him keep his promise by fixing (cutting) some of these programs.”
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Rep. Steve King Says Pre-Obamacare Health Care System Was ‘Absolutely’ Better
“If the American people had to decide between continuing with Obamacare the way it is … or going back to the way we were, I’d be for going back the way we were.”
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Even Right-Wing Breitbart Thinks The GOP Plan To Replace Obamacare Is Terrible
- Donald Trump, Featured News, Paul Ryan, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Opposition is opposition and, reasons aside, it’s good news that so many on both sides of the political spectrum are fighting against the latest GOP attack on the Affordable Care Act.
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Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Obamacare Replacement Has Even Bigger Fines For Being Uninsured
- Donald Trump, Featured News, Paul Ryan, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with even bigger penalties.
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Rand Paul Says It’s Time To Move Past Russia Scandal, Focus On Taking People’s Healthcare
As the Russia scandal continues to blow up, Rand Paul is urging the country to look away and focus on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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GOP Senate Will Vote On Obamacare Repeal Next Month – With Nothing To Replace it
Republicans in Congress can’t agree on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, despite having seven years to figure it out.
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Patriotic Millionaires Condemn Trump’s Plan to Gut Healthcare to Benefit the Wealthy
“Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality”
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Democrats Will Slam Trump As ‘Wall Street’s Champion’ In Post-Speech Rebuttal
The Democrats will use their first rebuttal speech to go hard after the unpopular president.
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Bernie Sanders Mocks Donald Trump’s Surprise at Complexity of Healthcare
“Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting – yeah, we got a clue.”
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Gov. Jay Inslee: Obamacare Repeal is ‘a Piggy Bank to Give Tax-Cuts to the Wealthy’
“I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot saying ‘boy, look at all these gauges this is really complicated,’ you know you have a problem.”
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Town Halls Erupt With Passion As DAPL Camp Goes Down In Flames
For the party that talks so much about the value of life they sure put a whole lot of energy into polices that promise to be a slow death sentence
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Trump Attacks “So-Called Angry” Americans Worried About Losing Their Health Insurance
With all due disrespect to the president, the people flooding these town halls in GOP districts are angry. There is nothing “so-called†about it.
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New Trump Health Care Rule Would Hike Costs And Eliminate Middle-Class Tax Credits
All the terrible things Trump claims are true about the Affordable Care Act would become a reality under his new proposal.
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GOP Official Is Booed For Trying To Bring Death Panel Lie Back To Life
The American people are sick of the Republican Party’s lies on Obamacare.
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Millions On The Verge Of Losing Insurance As Senate Inches Toward Confirming Tom Price
Price as head of HHS will make the GOP attempt to take health insurance from millions of Americans much easier.
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Disaster Looms For GOP As 35% Of Americans Have No Idea Trump Is About To Gut Their Health Care
The political implications of 35% of Americans not knowing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same things will be a complete disaster for Republicans after people realize that Trump has demolished their health insurance.
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Chicago Rally Reveals Economic and Human Damage of GOP’s Real Motives and Hypocrisy in ACA Repeal
“What is the best way to decimate a community? Deny its people access to healthcare.†“What is the best way to decimate a community? Shut down its largest employer.†These questions were asked and answered by Tim Egan, CEO of Chicago’s Roseland Community Hospital, last Sunday, January 15, as he opened his comments at a…
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Saving the Affordable Care Act Is Our Moral Responsibility
Illness is indiscriminate and every person must be afforded the care they need when they need it.
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Cruel Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
Republicans blocked amendments that would protect the “most popular and effective provisions†of the ACA, including some with no fiscal impact.
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Town Hall Audience Member Tells Paul Ryan That Obama, ACA Kept Him Alive
“I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him.”
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GOP Prohibits CBO From Reporting How Much ACA Repeal Blows Up the Deficit
The new Republican rule implicitly instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare, because it is frightening.
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The Party of Life Must Vote for Life: All Eyes on Obamacare
It is time for the party of life to live up to their convictions and stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and continue to fund Planned Parenthood.
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Republicans Fuming As Rand Paul Votes Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation
“I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare,” Paul said on the Senate floor.
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1 Million More Americans Sign Up For Obamacare As GOP Gleefully Prepares To Take It Away
- Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.
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Medicare and Medicaid Face Similar Fate as Obamacare Under Trump’s GOP
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
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Donald Trump Tells 60 Minutes He Will Keep Parts of Obamacare
Trump says he will keep the pre-existing conditions, calling it ‘one of the strongest assets,’ as well as children living with their parents
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Congress Opposes President Obama’s Effort To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
“Doctors get paid more if they prescribe really expensive drugs because they get paid a percentage of the cost of the drug as an incentive.”
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If You Have A Serious Illness, Paul Ryan Is Coming To Take Away Your Healthcare
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like, and it isn’t pretty. One of Ryan’s main goals is to take cost protections away from people who have serious illnesses.
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More Great Obama Economic News Republicans Are Afraid Americans Will Hear
2015 saw “the lowest number of bankruptcy filings for any 12-month period since 2007, and the fifth consecutive calendar year that filings have fallen significantly”
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Paul Krugman Strikes Back At Liberals Who Attack ‘Obamacare’
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Sounds Like A Realist – Not A Republican
The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass health-care insurance reform
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Paul Krugman Says Hillary Clinton is Right and Bernie Sanders is Wrong on Healthcare
Paul Krugman has entered the healthcare reform fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, a fact which will no doubt disappoint many progressives.
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House Weekly Address Says Happy New Year, Now Die Without Insurance
The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare
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Debunking the GOP’s Obamacare Tax Meme Again
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
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Corporate Health Care Giants Make Their Move
These are the halcyon days for PoliticusUSA. Staff writers and contributors have an endless smorgasbord of Republican rubbish to expose. You could write on a different issue that Republicans have twisted and misrepresented every day for a year and you still wouldn’t cover the endless destruction wrought through their fealty to the corporate multi-national gods….
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Obama Urges More People To Sign Up As ObamaCare Causes 45% Plunge In Uninsured Rate
President Obama isn’t content with what the ACA has achieved. President Obama is urging Americans to sign up for ObamaCare as the wildly successful law has led to a 45% plunge in the uninsured rate.
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House Freedom Caucus Document Explains Why the House Is Ungovernable
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
Americans Fall In Love With Obamacare As New Poll Shows Growing ACA Support
According to the latest PPP Poll, more Americans support Obamacare than oppose it as Democrats have become unified in their support of the ACA.
Reaction To SCOTUS “Obamacare” Ruling Reveals Republicans’ Intrinsic Inhumanity
That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years
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CBO Drops Reality Bomb On Republicans: Repealing Obamacare Will Add $353 Billion to the Deficit
A new CBO report shows that Republicans want to repeal your healthcare so they can add $353 billion over the next ten years to the deficit. It is projected to add $3 trillion to the deficit in the ten years after that.
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Obama Bluntly Calls Out Republicans For Trying To Take Healthcare Away From Millions
President Obama delivered a blunt message to Republicans. If they cynically mess with Obamacare, they will be harming he lives of millions of Americans.
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Solidly Republican Town Enrolls More People in Obamacare Than Anywhere in the Country
The town that signed up the most people for Obamacare is a “solidly Republican working-class town” in Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s “stomping grounds”.
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Republican Nightmares Come True As Customer Satisfaction With Obamacare Skyrockets
Republican nightmares have become reality as a new survey revealed that customer satisfaction with Obamacare has skyrocketed to the where it is now more popular than all other insurance options.
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Obama Tells Republicans To Embrace Reality As He Debunks Their Obamacare Lies
President Obama issued a statement celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act that told Republicans to embrace reality while he debunked some of the biggest lies about Obamacare.
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Obama Reminds Republicans That They Were Totally Wrong About Obamacare
While announcing that the ACA is beating all projections, President Obama reminded Republicans that they were wrong about Obamacare.
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Nearly Four Times More People Signed Up For Obamacare Than Watch Fox News
Fox News and their viewers like to pound their chests and tout their success, but Fox can’t hold a candle to Obamacare. Nearly four times as many people have signed up for Obamacare than watch Fox News.
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Bernie Sanders Delivers The GOP’s Worst Nightmare: Red Staters Who Call Healthcare a Right
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described what Republicans fear most. On recent trip to South Carolina and North Carolina, Sanders found red state residents who believe that healthcare is a right.
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Obama Eviscerates Congressional Republicans as ACA Sign Ups Fly Past 8 Million
As sign ups have flown past 8 million, President Obama used a surprise press conference to demolish Republicans for being totally wrong about the ACA.
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A Presidents’ Day Examination Of the Monumental Hurdles that President Obama Has Overcome
Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President and recognize the monumental hurdles he cleared while battling Republicans who made destroying his presidency and the nation’s economy their sole reason for serving in Congress.
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The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
How 2013 Gave Democrats a Blueprint to Retake the House
For Democrats to retake the House in 2013, they need to embrace key issues that they support and that are also supported by the American people.
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Republicans Are Making Sure That the Economic Recovery Only Benefits the Rich
If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only beneficiaries of good economic reports are Wall Street and corporations .
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Here Are The Facts That Republicans and The Media Aren’t Telling You About the ACA
PoliticusUSA recently sat down with a financial advisor who works with the ACA regularly to get the real story that the media isn’t reporting on the Affordable Care Act and the website.
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South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States
Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”
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Poll Fishing: How Today’s Media Distorts Data to Drive Ratings
Recent polls have shown Barack Obama’s approval rating on the decline. However, who exactly is “disapproving” of him tells the bigger story.
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The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
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Delicious Irony: How Gattaca is Actually Rand Paul’s Ideal Society
What Rand Paul doesn’t realize is that the plot of Gattaca perfectly represents his own governing philosophy. And that isn’t a good thing.
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The Insurance Industry Hates the ACA? The Insurance Industry Loves the ACA.
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA. Quite the opposite is true.
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GOP Hypocrites Criticize The ACA Website But Stood By Bush’s Medicare Part D Roll Out
Instead of decrying the Medicare prescription plan as an abject failure, Republicans denouncing the ACA’s rollout as a reason to abandon the entire law asked Americans to be patient.
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‘Christian’ Conservatives Abuse The Judicial System In Their Latest Battle Against The ACA
Conservative Christian business owners are appealing to other conservative Christians on the Supreme Court to grant them religious immunity from adhering to a federal law.
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IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.
The right-wing uses the people’s fear of new technology to try to stop “Obamacare”. Many experts said that Y2K would lead to TEOFTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it).
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Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy
Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint
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Vitter Amendment – A Pill Too Vitter To Swallow
The Republican “solution” to the non-existent government exemption from the ACA actually creates a government exemption from the ACA.
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The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese
Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?
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Republican Terrorists Have Exposed Themselves as The Traitors They Are
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed.
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Obama Tells Republicans He Is Going To Blow Right Through Their Obamacare Opposition
President Obama told Republicans today that their opposition to Obamacare is meaningless, and he is going to blow right through them to do what’s right for the American people.
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Republicans Return to the Scene of the Crime and Threaten to Hold The Debt Limit Hostage
Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands to President Obama.
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Grover Norquist Makes a Fool Out of Himself By Demanding Reagan Era Tax Rates
Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher than taxes are under President Obama.
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The Koch Brothers Turn On Chris Christie and Warn Him About Setting Up Obamacare
The Koch Brothers handed down a warning to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for not rejecting provisions in the ACA to submit health insurance exchange.
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States Offer Up Many Consequential Ballot Measures
Nearly 180 ballot measures face a vote on Tuesday. Here are a few of the most consequential initiatives to watch.
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Mitt Romney Adds the Uninsured to His List of Americans He isn’t Concerned About
Romney has made it perfectly clear that he does not care, or worry, about nearly half of America and that includes their health.
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The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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The Medical Debt of Colorado Shooting Victims Cries out for Healthcare Reform
Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.
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Republicans Wage America’s Second Civil War Over an Imaginary Loss of Freedom
An escalating trend among Republicans is instigating outrage in the population with overt assertions that President Obama threatens Americans’ freedom.
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Right Wing Pseudo-Patriots Are too Dumb To Realize Healthcare Reform is Freedom
An entire segment of the population is not intelligent enough to realize they were handed the precious gift of access to healthcare by the Supreme Court.
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Even the ‘Moderate’ Conservative at the New York Times Can’t Describe the GOP Healthcare Plan
Not even conservative water carrier David Brooks can sell the non-existent Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
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Right Wing Haters for Christ Vow To Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Now that the Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care Act constitutional, right wing so-called Christians are out in force promising to help Republicans repeal the law .
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America’s Flirtation with Healthcare’s Dark Side
Americans are all about community in so many different ways, so why when it comes to healthcare is everyone supposed to tough it out alone?
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The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
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Mitt Romney Unveils His Healthcare Plan: Don’t Get Sick
A president Romney will allow health insurance industry to offer bare-bones coverage with higher premiums and pre-existing conditions will not be covered. In other words, don’t get sick.
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Republicans See a Win-Win in Increasing America’s Suffering
Republicans have demonstrated that they will starve poor Americans, restrict women, children, and the elderly from receiving health assistance to prevent the rich from paying their fair share,
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What Would A Romney Presidency be Like? It’s Anyone’s Guess
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
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Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
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Freedom For Fools: Obamacare Opponents Will Pay With Their Lives
Hopefully, if the ACA is ruled unconstitutional, the first recipients of denial of coverage are those vile human beings who oppose the law on the basis of freedom.
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Debunking the GOP Propaganda: Only 34% Want Obamacare Repealed
Republicans and conservatives would like you believe that Americans hate Obamacare, but a new poll found that only 34% of those surveyed want Obamacare repealed.
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Republicans Use Threats And Pseudo Terrorism To Deny 30 Million Americans Healthcare
Republicans cannot come up with one legitimate reason for denying every American healthcare so they resorted to fear-mongering and threats that border on terrorism.
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Republicans Pass Blame For Their Own Deficit Failures On To The Poor
Republican economic policy is responsible for a large part of the nation’s deficit, but instead of taking responsibility, they are proposing making the poor responsible for deficit reduction.
Rick Santorum is a Hateful Master of Deceit
Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred to sow hatred of our president and of us
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Republicans Don’t Agree On Much But They’re 100% Unified On Degrading Women
The Republican presidential candidates are all allied with the Republicans in Congress and have signaled that if elected, they will continue the war on women.