Health Care

By Martha Burk | (Otherwords.org) | – – Expanding “corporate citizen” rights into health care could ultimately affect everybody, not just women. When Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became law in 2010, it mandated coverage of birth control without co-payments. Some employers didn’t like the rule, and Hobby Lobby hated it so […]

Epidemics

Yemen Cholera cases heading to 1 Mn. amid Saudi-led War

The Conversation

By Edna Bonhomme | (The Conversation) | – – As of October 1, 771,945 people in Yemen have been infected with cholera and 2,134 have died from the disease. The epidemic, rare on such a scale in contemporary times, reemerged as a formidable force last year due to Yemen’s ongoing civil war. The Saudi Arabia-led […]

Donald Trump

We Get Sick, They Get Rich

Juan Cole

by Sam Pizzigati | ( Inequality.org ) | – – Our ‘free market’ health care system gives CEOs the freedom to squeeze us. Blogging Our Great Divide. Our current health care system in the United States works just fine — for the corporate executives who run it. Take, for instance, Michael Mussallem. This eminent power […]

Donald Trump

Fix Healthcare: Require Congress to have the same Plan we Do

contributors

By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Until they deliver for the whole public, the public owes them nothing. Want good quality, lower-cost health care for your family. And — what the heck, let’s think big here — for every man, woman, and child in our society? Here’s how we can finally get […]

Donald Trump

How GOP plans to repeal Health Care will blight millions of Lives

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By Simon Haeder | (The Conversation) | – – At the end of July, the nation held its collective breath as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) looked poised to achieve his most formidable parliamentary accomplishment: the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But Republican hopes were dashed by one of their own, […]

Epidemics

Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases

contributors

TeleSur | – – Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization, WHO, announced Monday. Each day there are more than […]

Bernie Sanders

Will reaction against Trump on Health Care lead to Medicare for All?

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By Ann Jones. | (via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You may have noticed that quite a few of the formerly united states of America have been choosing to go their own way. My own state, Massachusetts, now blooms with sanctuary cities sworn to protect residents from federal intrusion. Its attorney general, Maura Healey, was […]

Donald Trump

There’s No ‘Free Market’ Solution to Health Care

contributors

By Geoff Coventry | (Otherwords.org) | – – A fully privatized system can never adequately provision the nation. The Republicans have big plans for health care in this country: to eliminate coverage for millions of Americans while delivering a big tax cut to the rich. As someone who stands to benefit from that tax cut, […]

Far Right

Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare (TYT Video)

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Republicans want to privatize, cut, and eventually kill Medicare. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. “If House Speaker Paul Ryan has his way, the 115th Congress won’t just repeal Obamacare, it will dramatically reform Medicare, turning the program into a […]