May 19, 2013
Quote: Lewis Black: Health Care Should Not Be A Profit Institution
“I’m not sure that health is uh, uh, a profit institution. I’m not sure. Because, because, it’s what stands between you AND FUCKING DROPPING DEAD.” – Lewis Black
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February 17, 2013
Is Money For Warfare More Important Than Health Care?
Below is an anonymous comment to a recent Facebook photo being passed around that compares money spent on warfare to money spent on health care:
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February 5, 2013
CBO and Obamacare: Today’s Right-Wing Health Care Tweet-A-Thon
Today your conservative friends have likely been tweeting and sharing the same right-wing articles in an attempt to show their “compassion” for fellow Americans.
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November 20, 2012
Small Business Health Care Costs: Another Reason To Advocate Medicare For All
There is a lot of talk from Republicans on the crippling effects of “Obamacare” on small businesses. But Republicans offer no solutions to rising health care costs that don’t rely on the failed experiment of for-profit health care insurance provided through your employer. Been there; Done that. It’s why health care insurance is so expensive. I fully admit the Affordable Care Act relies on a failed health care insurance model. This is why we need Medicare for all.
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November 19, 2012
Don’t Like “Obamacare”? Advocate Something Better, Like Medicare For All
A New York Post column (“The 49ers“) laments the potential job losses as a result of full implementation of “Obamacare.” The use of the term “Obamacare” in place of “Affordable Care Act” should be your first tip-off of what’s to come. The article’s author is Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, which is a libertarian think tank. That should be your second tip-off.
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November 15, 2012
CEOs and Obamacare: Why it Proves We Need Medicare for All
What you need to understand about the CEOs who are firing employees and cutting back on hours and pay because of “Obamacare”…
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October 11, 2012
Fact of the Day: Your Health Care Insurance Company Could Owe You a Refund
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires your health care insurance company to spend most of your premium on health care, not administrative costs and profits.
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September 9, 2012
Medicare: Universal Health Care So Evil, We Gave It To Senior Citizens
Since 1965, the United States of America has experimented with a crazy, evil and potentially nation-destroying idea of universal health care. See, that was the year congress enacted Medicare under the Social Security Act. Medicare is a government-run universal health care insurance program for people 65 and older, as well as younger people with disabilities. This program is so bad for America that it polls at greater than 80% and it’s helped lift millions of senior citizens out of poverty and give them the peace of mind of knowing they have access to health care in their advancing years. What a horrible idea!
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September 6, 2012
DNC – Bill Clinton’s Evisceration of Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Republicans
Last night at the Democratic National Convention, Romney campaign lies met with a smooth talkin’ boy from Arkansas, former President Bill Clinton, and the result was a political smack-down broadcast live to millions of Americans. — Here are five Romney-Ryan-Republican lies turned to dust:
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August 29, 2012
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy: Election is ‘Mandate’ to Overhaul Medicare
House Republican Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says electing Mitt Romney this fall means Republicans have a ‘mandate’ to overhaul Medicare. As McCarthy put it, “If there’s a mandate going through this election, it’s to save Medicare.” As I put it: When Republicans say “save Medicare” they mean end Medicare as we know it. They would keep a government program called Medicare but it would not be the Medicare that has existed for almost half a century. The Republican plan for Medicare is to turn it into a program designed to shortchange seniors while increasing profits for private insurance companies.
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