Healthcare

Doctors, Nurses, And Healthcare Professionals Are Organizing For Joe Biden

Doctors, Nurses, And Healthcare Professionals Are Organizing For Joe Biden

The Biden campaign announced the launch of Health Care Providers For Biden-Harris. The healthcare providers will organize other healthcare professionals…

7 months ago

White House Lays Out Biden’s Vision for Healthcare and Freedom Ahead Of SOTU

Ahead of the State of the Union, the White House laid out the President’s vision for protecting and enhancing affordable…

10 months ago

Matt Gaetz Caught On Camera Admitting Trump Plans To Cut People’s Healthcare

While campaigning for Trump in New Hampshire, C-SPAN caught Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) saying that Trump wants to cut Americans'…

11 months ago

Trump Vows To Take Healthcare Away From 40 Million Over Holiday Weekend

As America enjoys its Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Donald Trump is attacking Obamacare and vowing to end it and take health…

1 year ago

Biden’s Build Back Better Would Give 3.4 Million More Americans Health Insurance

Build Back Better would be the largest expansion of health insurance coverage since Obamacare in 2010.

3 years ago

Should Medicare Be Covering Unproven Drugs? The Explosive Controversy that Exposes Big Flaws in Our Healthcare System.

On June 7, the F.D.A approved the use of the controversial Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm. This led to a backlash from…

3 years ago

NY Got Close to Passing Single-Payer Healthcare–Then Special Interests Squashed It

Many New Yorkers were expecting this year would be the one in which New York finally passed the "New York…

4 years ago

We’re Getting Health Care Totally Wrong

cost caps is the right solution on healthcareSince Congress passed the Affordable Care Act a decade ago, we’ve gotten totally…

4 years ago

Biden Reopens Federal Health Insurance Marketplace

President Joe Biden announced he would reopen the federal health insurance marketplace for three months, emphasizing the importance of ensuring…

4 years ago

Biden Is Delivering The Senate To Democrats By Making SCOTUS Fight About Obamacare

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is delivering votes to Senate Democratic candidates by making the SCOTUS fight about Obamacare.

4 years ago

Biden Just Turned The SCOTUS Vacancy Into Trump’s Worst Nightmare

During a speech in Philadelphia, Joe Biden made Trump's nightmares come true by tying the Supreme Court vacancy to healthcare.

4 years ago

Nancy Pelosi Just Showed Why The SCOTUS Fight Is Backfiring On Trump

Speaker Pelosi used Trump's rush to get a new Supreme Court justice against the president and showed why it is…

4 years ago

Obama Says Biden and Sanders’ Goals Aren’t That Different: They Both Want Healthcare for Everybody

Barack Obama has said there's little difference between Bernie Sanders' and Joe Biden's political goals. The former President pointed to…

4 years ago

Most Americans Are Worried Pharmaceutical Companies Will Cash in on the Pandemic and Raise Drug Prices

According to new Gallup and West Health polling, which surveyed 1,016 U.S. adults in mid-May, nine in 10 U.S. adults…

5 years ago

Trump Supports Taking Healthcare Away From 20 Million As The Economy Collapses

Trump admitted during Sunday's coronavirus briefing that he supports the lawsuit that would kill the ACA even while the economy…

5 years ago

10 Years After Passing Affordable Care Act, Obama Says It’s ‘Progress Worth Protecting’ Against Republican Attempts To End It

In conjunction with a political organization called "Protect Our Care," which seeks to provide "outreach, rapid response, research and messaging…

5 years ago

Trump Believes Making America Competitive Depends on Slashing Americans’ Wages

I know facts have a hard time surviving and garnering any credibility in Trump’s truth-free political swamp, but let’s give…

5 years ago

Trump Melts Down And Says Democrats Are Going To Kill Him On Healthcare

Trump exploded and complained during a campaign meeting that Democrats are going to kill him on healthcare in the 2020…

5 years ago

Opinion: Fuller Picture Shows Trump’s Policies are Devastating to Americans’ Economic Well-Being

  In response to news that the economy created 266,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate dipped to 50-year…

5 years ago

Opinion: What Do The 99.9% Think About A Wealth Tax?

The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall…

5 years ago

Democrats Must Resist Recession Narrative and Critique Narrative of Trump’s Economic Success

This week’s stock market antics and the occurrence of an inverted yield curve have provided compelling evidence portending another economic…

5 years ago

Republicans Admit That They Have No Plan To Lower Healthcare Costs

Republicans admitted that they are running against socialism in 2020 because they have no plan to lower the cost of…

6 years ago

The Democratic Healthcare Agenda And Obamacare Are Massively Popular With Voters

A new poll reveals that 65% of voters approve of Obamacare and 69%-90% support the planks of the Democratic healthcare…

6 years ago

A Peek Behind the Numbers Shows Trump’s Economy Inflicts Pain on Most Americans

Can we call an economy “successful,” if people living within it are being harmed, not served?

6 years ago

Nearly 60 Percent of Voters Don’t Trust Trump on Healthcare

A large majority of American voters say they don't trust Donald Trump on health care, according to the new Politico/Morning Consult…

6 years ago

Democrats welcome fight as Trump tees up 2020 healthcare battle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on Tuesday embraced U.S. President Donald Trump's call to revive a fight over healthcare coverage, ensuring…

6 years ago

Deluded Trump Says the GOP Will Pass a ‘Great’ Healthcare Law After 2020

According to The Washington Post this morning, Donald Trump will not attempt to get Congress to pass legislation on healthcare…

6 years ago

Democrats evolve to “demand the impossible” against GOP Cynicism

One of my favorite book titles is that of Tom Moylan’s 1986 study of utopian literature: Demand the Impossible. He…

6 years ago

U.S. Democratic campaigns target healthcare as Republican weak spot: Reuters poll

Democratic candidates for the U.S. Congress are closing out the campaign season with an ominous warning: telling voters millions of…

6 years ago

McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal

Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader…

6 years ago

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Fact Checks And Destroys Trump’s Healthcare Lies

MSNBC's Ali Velshi put Trump's recent statements about healthcare under the fact check microscope and found the truth about that…

6 years ago

USA Today Is Lambasted for Printing Trump’s Lies on Healthcare

The Washington Post’s fact-check team reported Wednesday that almost every sentence in Trump’s opinion article for USA Today contains a…

6 years ago

Senate Democrats Strike Back And Force Vote To Kill Trump Junk Insurance Plans

Senate Democrats have announced a plan to force a vote on legislation that would kill Trump's junk insurance plans rule…

6 years ago

Obamacare Is About To Destroy Trump As 66% Of Voters Oppose Eliminating Pre-existing Conditions Protections

A new poll of voters found that they are opposed to the Trump administration's lawsuit to eliminate protections for pre-existing…

7 years ago

Healthcare, Not Russia, Is The #1 Issue That Democratic Voters Want To Hear About

A new CBS Battleground tracker poll found that the control of the House is a toss-up among battleground voters, but…

7 years ago

Right-Wing Christians Place Party Before Faith Forsaking Compassion For Their Neighbor

It doesn’t matter what the issue is. Right-wing Christians have been placing the priorities of the party before the tenants…

7 years ago

Trump Threatens To Take Healthcare Away From 1 Million Unless Democrats Pay For His Wall

Trump OMB Director Mick Mulvaney is suggesting that Trump will restore the cuts he made to Obamacare subsidies if Democrats…

7 years ago

Opinion: In A Tweet Julia Louis-Dreyfus Showed More Leadership Than Trump Has In Eight Months

When Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced via Twitter that she has breast cancer, she showed Trump how leadership tweeting is done. At…

7 years ago

Tom Price’s Travel Costs Now Top $1 Million After New Report Reveals He Used Military Aircraft

With the new reporting on Thursday, Price's travel troubles got much worse. His days squandering taxpayer dollars for personal comfort…

7 years ago

Pence Makes A Fool of Himself As He Tries to Demonize Canadian Healthcare

Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting…

7 years ago

Opinion: Healthcare Bill Is About The GOP Saving Itself, Not American Citizens

The latest attempt by the GOP to replace Obamacare has nothing to do with providing coverage for American citizens. Members…

7 years ago

Republican Senator Collins ‘leaning against’ new healthcare bill: AP

Republican Senator Susan Collins has said she is "leaning against" the latest Republican healthcare bill, the Associated Press reported on…

7 years ago

Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Dream Is Dying Fast as McConnell Moves Toward Bipartisan Healthcare Bill

Trump has been threatening to withhold payments for ACA subsidies from insurance companies, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)…

7 years ago

Bipartisan Group Of Governors Tear ‘Skinny’ Repeal To Shreds In Letter To The Senate

Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it's clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how…

7 years ago

Desperate GOP Eyes Last-Ditch Bill That Would Leave 16 Million Uninsured And Spike Premiums 20%

The "skinny" repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and…

7 years ago

Bernie Sanders Personally Thanks Every American Who Stood Up And Fought Back On Healthcare

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used an appearance on ABC's The View to thank every American who stood up, fought back,…

7 years ago

Trump To Humiliate Himself By Trying To Negotiate His Own Healthcare Bill

Donald Trump has called all of the Senate Republicans to the White House on Wednesday for lunch because a man…

7 years ago

John McCain Throws Tantrum Because Russia Scandal Is Stalling The Deadly GOP Health Care Bill

"I think it's very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I…

7 years ago

From Rauner to Trump, GOP Practices Politics of Erasure

The problem is, again, that those constituents you and I might call people, the GOP, federally and at the state…

7 years ago

Trumpcare Awoke a Rage and More Determination In Our Effort To Remember and Resist

The wrath of voters was visible at the same sort of townhall meetings Republicans used to gin up anger over…

8 years ago

Alyssa Milano Lays Waste to the Old White Men Making Decisions About Her Vagina

"These are the lawmakers making the decisions for my vagina. Looks like none of them have made contact with one…

8 years ago

Opinion: Sam Brownback Vetoes Republican Medicaid Expansion Legislation

"We have the ability to help people who truly need it the most. We have the ability to make a…

8 years ago

There is No Disguising the Fact that GOP Health Care Means Just Letting People Die

"Can't be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it's not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus."

8 years ago

Here’s The Proof That Trump Was Crushed By Health Care Bill Defeat

After Trump was handed an epic loss on health care, he tried to spin himself as never having been concerned…

8 years ago

Even Right-Wing Breitbart Thinks The GOP Plan To Replace Obamacare Is Terrible

Opposition is opposition and, reasons aside, it's good news that so many on both sides of the political spectrum are…

8 years ago

Paul Krugman Lays Waste to GOP’s Half-A$$ed Obamacare Replacement

Paul Krugman described the GOP's Obamacare replacement as, "It's not Obamacare 2.0. It's Obamacare 0.5 - a half-assed attempt to…

8 years ago

What Trump Calls a ‘Spirit of Optimism’ Sweeping Country is Actually a Wave of BS

Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he'll tell us…

8 years ago

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"

8 years ago

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 -…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

Mormon Church Opposes A Compassionate Utah Bill To Relieve Suffering

Now, the LDS church did not enumerate any of the "unintended consequences” of medical marijuana use because they are a…

9 years ago

Congressional Republicans Empower Evangelicals To Sue Governments For Enforcing Law

The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals' religious…

9 years ago

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.…

9 years ago

Fox News Claims Hillary Less Ethical, But Public Gives Her High Ratings on Every Issue

Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still…

10 years ago

A New Report Proves Republican Governed Red States Are Economic Parasites

A new report reveals that those same red state Republican voters who want the federal government cut to shreds are…

10 years ago

Real Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job

Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy…

10 years ago

Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker's budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican "vision for America" and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with…

10 years ago

Republicans Say Stomachs Connect to Vaginas and that Cancer is a Fungus

Healthcare has a lot in common with the environment, with Republicans, who know nothing about either, eager to pass legislation…

10 years ago

GOP Stooge Tries To Take Healthcare From 13 Million Because He Wishes Obama Wasn’t Born

Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will…

10 years ago

Koch Lovers Claim Kochs Are Defenders of the American Dream

Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our…

10 years ago

Barack H. Obama is the Greatest President of Modern Times

His list of accomplishments, even minus any opposition, would be staggering. Considering the odds against him, they are truly monumental

10 years ago

Democrats Need to Be Bold In Their Policies and Stand with the Guy In The White House

One thing is obvious: Democrats are still allowing the media to parrot GOP narratives, and Democrats are still running away…

10 years ago

Democrats Lost Because They Wasted Their Most Valuable Weapon in the Midterms

Barack Obama is still the President, and his administration's record achievements over the past five-and-a-half years were squandered by Democratic…

10 years ago

Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Comeback is More Republican State-Wrecking

If you live in Wisconsin, you have heard of the alleged "Wisconsin comeback" touted by Governor Scott Walker. This is…

10 years ago

Hypocrite Ted “Government Shutdown” Cruz Whines That The Government Should Be Doing More on Ebola

The man who shut down the government in an effort to stop funding to Obamacare/access to affordable healthcare is now…

10 years ago

In Response to GOP Fear Mongering, the White House Details its Response to the Ebola Outbreak

The White House gives us facts; the GOP gives us fear-mongering. Which would you prefer as a response to the…

10 years ago

Republicans Caught Between Opposition to Healthcare and Fear of Ebola

Republicans are saying Obama is underestimating threat of Ebola, which might explain why they're refusing to fund a cure and…

10 years ago

Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster

Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has…

10 years ago

Proof That Republicans Are Creating Poverty: America Is Number One In Low Wage Jobs

According to new research on America's world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals

McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the…

10 years ago

Abortion is Human Sacrifice? So is the Death of Jesus

While we are on the subject of "religious freedom," that is, Christians having a unique right, a privileged place in…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Laying Our Throats Bare for Their Corporate Masters

This is the GOP of the 21st century - secretive and extreme - a party that pretends to populism but…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Made America a Dangerous Place To Be an Expectant Mother

There were two reports out last week from a highly respected medical journal and an international organization that revealed America…

11 years ago

Toxic? Not So Much. President Obama’s Daily Approval at 50%

The President -- the one that the media keeps tittering Democrats must distance themselves from because he is so hated…

11 years ago

A Plurality of Kentuckians Like Obamacare, As Long as It’s Called Something Else

A plurality of registered voters in Kentucky have a favorable impression of Kynect. Kynect is Obamacare, by a different name.

11 years ago

The Revenge of the Poor, Betrayal of the Elite Now Leads to The Rise of Super Bugs

Neglecting the conditions and healthcare of the poor has contributed to drug-resistant microbes which have reached crisis proportions.

11 years ago

After Killing Your Job and Your Healthcare Republicans Are Now Targeting the Air You Breathe

Republicans are methodically defunding the Environmental Protection Agency to either abolish the agency or eliminate its ability to protect Americans…

11 years ago

‘New’ Republican Healthcare Plan Sticks It To Everyone Except Insurance Companies

The Republicans "new" plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they…

11 years ago

Republican Budget Cuts Are Literally Causing People to Freeze to Death In the Streets

As tragic as the number of Americans freezing to death is, it is the number of Americans who are homeless…

11 years ago

Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay

The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers' wages, pensions, sick pay, workers' compensation.

11 years ago

When Republicans Call Obama Marxist They are Condemning the Pope, Thomas Jefferson, and Jesus

Every time Republicans decry President Obama's economic policies as Marxist, socialist, or communist, they are in effect condemning the Pope,…

11 years ago

On This Thanksgiving, A Long-Term Poverty Survivor Gives Thanks

Liberals can take a moment to pat themselves on the back. There are poor people everywhere who are grateful for…

11 years ago

The Great Hypocrisy Is That Republicans Are Anything But Pro-Life

In their blood lust to withhold healthcare, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans revealed that…

11 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions

As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Grown To Hate America As Much As They Hate President Obama

If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to…

11 years ago

The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed

The Heritage Foundation's Tim Chapman says, "We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in…

11 years ago

Tea Party Heroine Determined to Save Americans from Obamacare Crack Cocaine of Dependency

Michele Bachmann took time off from election fraud efforts to have an Obamacare hissy-fit for the ages

11 years ago

The Crazies Rally Around their Own, Ted Cruz

Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel insists "Mr. Cruz emasculated, delightfully, Obama's political yes-bots on both sides of the aisle."

11 years ago

It Looks Like The Republican Debt Ceiling Demands Came Straight From The Koch Brothers

The GOP's debt ceiling demands are a composite Ryan budget, Koch policy meeting demands,"and ALEC social policy reform package all…

11 years ago

Ted Cruz Ignorantly Compares Obamacare Foes to Nazi Appeasers

Ted Cruz, not content to show America he does not understand Dr. Seuss, showed us he understands neither facts nor…

11 years ago