Medicaid

Bernie Sanders To Stay In Top Senate Post To Protect Social Security And Medicare

Bernie Sanders To Stay In Top Senate Post To Protect Social Security And Medicare

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he will be staying as the ranking member on the Health Education Labor and…

1 month ago

Trump Suggests Cutting Medicare In Dr. Oz Announcement

Trump's announcement that he has picked Dr. Oz to run Medicaid and Medicare came with a paragraph that suggested cutting…

1 month ago

Family Values Hypocrites In 9 Red States Have Taken Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Kids

Sixty percent of children who have lost their health insurance reside in nine red states where Republicans have either put…

1 year ago

Trump Is Blocking States From Getting Medicaid Funds To Address Coronavirus

As the spread of coronavirus takes hold across the United States, many are wondering what actions state governments may be…

5 years ago

Trump Just Lost A Big Case On Taking Away Medicaid Coverage

One of the most conservative judges in the country ruled against a Trump administration effort to allow the states to…

5 years ago

Trump’s Budget Slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Disability

Trump's budget tries to pay for his tax cut for wealthy and corporations by slashing funding to Medicare, Medicaid, and…

5 years ago

Trump Has a Secret Plan to Cut Healthcare For the Poor and Elderly

Donald Trump and members of his administration have been working for months on a secret plan to cutback the Medicaid…

6 years ago

As America Is Distracted By Trump Child Abuse, GOP Moves To Gut Medicare And Medicaid

While the American people are rightly outraged by the Trump administration's abuse of migrant children, House Republicans proposed a budget…

7 years ago

GOP Congressman Melts Down After Being Called Out For Cutting Anti-Addiction Funding

Republicans want you to believe they give a hoot about the opioid crisis in America, while they continue to vote for…

7 years ago

Tom Price Used $300K In Taxpayer Funds For Private Travel While Trying To Take Your Health Care

Instead of using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself, perhaps Tom Price – and his boss – should use the funds…

7 years ago

Trump’s Approval Rating On Health Care Tumbles Into The 20s As Trumpcare Dies In The Senate

The American people rate Trump's performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.

7 years ago

GOP Rep Says He’s Fine With More People Dying Under Trumpcare As Long As It Saves Money

A Center for American Progress analysis found that the GOP health plan will lead to as many as 27,700 more…

8 years ago

Rachel Maddow Shows How The New GOP Health Plan Will Devastate 75 Million Americans

"Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the…

8 years ago

Republican Health Care Plan Would Slash Coverage For 30 Million Low-Income Children

Under the GOP health care plan, millions of low-income children would be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage.

8 years ago

Key Senate Republican Obliterates Trump’s Disastrous Budget Proposal As ‘Dead On Arrival’

Republicans in Congress won't touch Trump's agenda with a 20-foot pole – and it's only been four months since he…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Savagery

Republicans finally revealed their "replacement" health care "reform” that literally robs healthcare from tens-of-millions of Americans.

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Wants A Racist President If He’ll Ravage the Poor and Elderly

It is possible Paul Ryan is not an avid nativist, but he is a Republican and the fact that he…

9 years ago

Republican Failures Are Distracting Voters Again With A Secret Weapon

Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents…

9 years ago

Planned Parenthood Strikes Back At Religious Bully Bobby Jindal

Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life

9 years ago

Editorial Cartoon: The Sopranos

Rick Scott, who refuses to expand Medicaid and thereby denies more than 800,000 a chance for medical insurance, went on…

10 years ago

Koch Brothers Astroturf Director Fails Again With “Millions Of Montanans” Tweet

Montanans may not be fans of President Obama, but they also are suspicious of organizations funded by out of state…

10 years ago

Obama’s Biggest Victory: 16.4 Million Uninsured Americans Have Gained Health Coverage Via ACA

Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March…

10 years ago

Obamacare Is A Smashing Success As Uninsured Rates Continue To Plummet

A Gallup poll finds the percentage of Americans lacking health care coverage has dropped from 17.3 percent in 2013 to…

10 years ago

Obamacare Is Working: Millions More Are Insured Than A Year Ago

The Urban Institute's latest survey shows that Obamacare is working to lower the number of Americans who are uninsured.

10 years ago

Joni Ernst Promises Americans a Very Painful Lesson If Elected

Ernst's treatise on government dependency revealed that not only is she a hard line devotee of tea party orthodoxy, she…

10 years ago

Real Death Panels: Virginia Republicans and Their Monomaniacal Quest to Deny Medicaid

In ongoing efforts to deny affordable health care to their citizens, Virginia Republicans may have very well broken the law…

10 years ago

Marco Rubio Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Marriage Is the Solution To Poverty

Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage…

11 years ago

Rep. Waxman Catches Republicans in Another ACA Lie and Delivers Truth Bomb With Report

On New Year's Eve, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, published a…

11 years ago

Rachel Maddow Highlights AP Story Showing Red States Sabotaging the Uninsured

Rachel discussed an AP story that was published earlier in the day showing that the rate of participation in the…

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

Fox Hypes ‘New’ Republican Alternative to Obamacare That is Over Four Years Old

A Fox Nation article hyped a press release from Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) where he states than an 'independent' study…

11 years ago

Study Finds That Red States Rejecting Medicaid Expansion Will Lose Billions Over Time

The Commonwealth Fund found that states rejecting Medicaid money will lose billions over time.

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

Ohio Christian Conservatives Are Fighting to Deny Poor People Healthcare

Around the country conservative Christians have led the fight to deny healthcare for the poor by opposing Medicaid expansion in…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

Republican Led Texas Is a National Role Model For All The Wrong Reasons

It is true that Texas is a large state and its prideful and devoted residents, but the areas the state…

11 years ago

Cancer Patients Facing Death Thanks to the Republican Sequester

While conservatives whine about White House tours cancer patients will die because of their sequester cuts.

12 years ago

The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System

There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with…

12 years ago

The Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions to Deny Poor Americans Healthcare

Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs…

12 years ago

Liberals Need to Avoid Being Their Own Worst Enemy

Some liberals have the mind-boggling view there is no difference between Romney & Obama, and are even planning not to…

12 years ago

Exposing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s Covert Mission to Punish Women

Women should be quaking at the prospect of an executive branch that holds women in such low esteem that they…

12 years ago

The Dreams of Romney-Ryan Are Dangerous to Nearly Everyone

This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority…

12 years ago

Women Are Already Mobilizing Against Romney/Ryan

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to have some company on the campaign trail. Women around the country are…

12 years ago

Republican Governors Declare Independence from Human Compassion

Unsatisfied with their callous performances as governors, some of the GOP's cruelest politicians have ratcheted up their psychopath game to…

12 years ago