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 healthcare and freedom for everyone.
Ahead of the State of the Union, the White House laid out the President’s vision for protecting and enhancing affordable healthcare and freedom for everyone.
While campaigning for Trump in New Hampshire, C-SPAN caught Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) saying that Trump wants to cut Americans’ healthcare.
As America enjoys its Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Donald Trump is attacking Obamacare and vowing to end it and take health insurance coverage away from millions.
Build Back Better would be the largest expansion of health insurance coverage since Obamacare in 2010.
On June 7, the F.D.A approved the use of the controversial Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm. This led to a backlash from many Alzheimer’s experts, who say that evidence for the drug’s effectiveness is limited.
Many New Yorkers were expecting this year would be the one in which New York finally passed the “New York Health Act.” 30 years after being introduced, the prospect of the state realizing the possibilities of single-payer healthcare free from corporate influence has enough votes to pass. But if New Yorkers think the for-profit insurance…
cost caps is the right solution on healthcareSince Congress passed the Affordable Care Act a decade ago, we’ve gotten totally stuck on health care. The parties are at war with each other. Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA 70 times. Democrats can’t decide whether to reform the system with a “public option†or to…
President Joe Biden announced he would reopen the federal health insurance marketplace for three months, emphasizing the importance of ensuring more Americans have access to health care as the nation continues to contend with the realities of the coronavirus pandemic. “Starting today and running through May 15, 2021, we are opening HealthCare.gov for all Americans…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is delivering votes to Senate Democratic candidates by making the SCOTUS fight about Obamacare.
During a speech in Philadelphia, Joe Biden made Trump’s nightmares come true by tying the Supreme Court vacancy to healthcare.
Speaker Pelosi used Trump’s rush to get a new Supreme Court justice against the president and showed why it is backfiring on him.
Barack Obama has said there’s little difference between Bernie Sanders’ and Joe Biden’s political goals. The former President pointed to their approach to healthcare among other issues. Obama spoke to the New Yorker about his former Vice President and the Vermont Senator, drawing a positive contrast between them. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie…
According to new Gallup and West Health polling, which surveyed 1,016 U.S. adults in mid-May, nine in 10 U.S. adults are “very” (55 percent) or “somewhat” (33 percent) concerned that pharmaceutical companies will exploit the pandemic and raise drug prices. Democrats were most likely to be concerned (66 percent), well ahead of independents (52 percent),…
Trump admitted during Sunday’s coronavirus briefing that he supports the lawsuit that would kill the ACA even while the economy is collapsing.
In conjunction with a political organization called “Protect Our Care,” which seeks to provide “outreach, rapid response, research and messaging center in the fight to protect health care,” former President Barack Obama released a video in which he celebrated and touted the reforms passed in the Affordable Care Act. The ACA, commonly called Obamacare by…
I know facts have a hard time surviving and garnering any credibility in Trump’s truth-free political swamp, but let’s give asserting a few facts at the outset here the old college try. FACT:  Homelessness in the U.S. has increased for the third year in a row under Trump’s rule. FACT:  Despite low unemployment rates, poverty…
Trump exploded and complained during a campaign meeting that Democrats are going to kill him on healthcare in the 2020 election.
In response to news that the economy created 266,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate dipped to 50-year lows, CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza rehashed the tired but nonetheless damaging and deceptive narrative that “the economy†is indeed strong, providing Trump a clear path to re-election if only he were politically deft and disciplined…
The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall Street, corporate democrats, and now even other Democratic candidates running for president. As I have written in PoliticusUsa.com (here and here), the intensity of the energy devoted to this criticism, combined with the lack of…
This week’s stock market antics and the occurrence of an inverted yield curve have provided compelling evidence portending another economic recession. These economic indicators, in addition to spurring stock sell-offs and turbulent market volatility, also sparked a firestorm of debate and commentary regarding how a potential recession would impact Trump’s 2020 re-election bid. The word…
Republicans admitted that they are running against socialism in 2020 because they have no plan to lower the cost of healthcare.
A new poll reveals that 65% of voters approve of Obamacare and 69%-90% support the planks of the Democratic healthcare agenda.
Can we call an economy “successful,†if people living within it are being harmed, not served?
A large majority of American voters say they don’t trust Donald Trump on health care, according to the new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. The poll discovered that 59 percent of voters said they don’t have “much trust†or “any trust at all†in the president on health care. The new poll also discovered that more…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats on Tuesday embraced U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to revive a fight over healthcare coverage, ensuring the issue will dominate the 2020 presidential election and Trump’s bid for a second term in office. Trump last week stepped up his assault on Democratic predecessor President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 healthcare law by…
According to The Washington Post this morning, Donald Trump will not attempt to get Congress to pass legislation on healthcare — including changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) — until after the 2020 elections. The clearly-delusional president said that he believes that in 2020 he will be reelected, and Republicans will control…
One of my favorite book titles is that of Tom Moylan’s 1986 study of utopian literature: Demand the Impossible. He explains, if memory serves, that he saw those words spray-painted on a wall in the Paris streets during the 1968 mass rebellions. The phrase stayed with him, clearly, as it has with me The phrase…
Democratic candidates for the U.S. Congress are closing out the campaign season with an ominous warning: telling voters millions of Americans could lose their health insurance or be forced to pay significantly more if Republicans win.
Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a “disappointment.”
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi put Trump’s recent statements about healthcare under the fact check microscope and found the truth about that Trump is doing to the health care system in the United States.
The Washington Post’s fact-check team reported Wednesday that almost every sentence in Trump’s opinion article for USA Today contains a misleading statement or a falsehood. The op-ed, which states “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors,†contains previously debunked claims, the Post wrote. “Presumably the president is aware of our fact checks—he…
Senate Democrats have announced a plan to force a vote on legislation that would kill Trump’s junk insurance plans rule and protect coverage for people with preexisting conditions.
A new poll of voters found that they are opposed to the Trump administration’s lawsuit to eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions by a 2 to 1 margin.
A new CBS Battleground tracker poll found that the control of the House is a toss-up among battleground voters, but the number one issue that Democratic voters want to hear about in these districts isn’t the Russia investigation or impeachment. Voters are most concerned with health care.
Democrats and progressives of all stripes will need to paint a vivid portrayal of the wonderful life we might have been living with Hillary Clinton as President and the possibilities they can deliver if they achieve congressional majorities.
It doesn’t matter what the issue is. Right-wing Christians have been placing the priorities of the party before the tenants of the faith for decades. However, now they are reaching ever new extremes, emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidency and Republican control of Congress.
Trump OMB Director Mick Mulvaney is suggesting that Trump will restore the cuts he made to Obamacare subsidies if Democrats agree to use US taxpayer money to pay for his wall with Mexico.
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced via Twitter that she has breast cancer, she showed Trump how leadership tweeting is done. At any other time in our political history, the very idea of saying a person playing a president or vice president on television is more presidential than the real thing would be absurd.
With the new reporting on Thursday, Price’s travel troubles got much worse. His days squandering taxpayer dollars for personal comfort are likely numbered.
Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting on his nerves.
The latest attempt by the GOP to replace Obamacare has nothing to do with providing coverage for American citizens. Members of the Republican Party are simply trying to save their political careers as opposed to saving the lives of the constituents that they serve.
Republican Senator Susan Collins has said she is “leaning against” the latest Republican healthcare bill, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
Trump has been threatening to withhold payments for ACA subsidies from insurance companies, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is signaling a move towards a bipartisan health care bill.
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
The “skinny” repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and leave millions of Americans without the care they need.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used an appearance on ABC’s The View to thank every American who stood up, fought back, and refused to allow Republicans to take healthcare away from 22 million Americans.
Donald Trump has called all of the Senate Republicans to the White House on Wednesday for lunch because a man who knows nothing about healthcare is going to try to negotiate his own health care bill.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
The problem is, again, that those constituents you and I might call people, the GOP, federally and at the state level, have decided are “not even people.â€
The wrath of voters was visible at the same sort of townhall meetings Republicans used to gin up anger over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
“These are the lawmakers making the decisions for my vagina. Looks like none of them have made contact with one in a while.”
“We have the ability to help people who truly need it the most. We have the ability to make a decision today that will save lives — potentially thousands.
“Can’t be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it’s not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus.”
After Trump was handed an epic loss on health care, he tried to spin himself as never having been concerned about immediately repealing and replacing Obamacare, when in reality, Friday’s defeat was crushing for Trump because he has been obsessed with repealing Obamacare for years.
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.
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 preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money”
Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’
“Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality”
“Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting – yeah, we got a clue.”
“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.”
Now, the LDS church did not enumerate any of the “unintended consequences†of medical marijuana use because they are a religion and does not need to explain its position because god. Even if a religion hates the idea of legal recreational weed use, legalizing marijuana for medicinal use to relieve suffering should be a non-issue; particularly for any religion claiming to have an ounce of compassion for the suffering of others.
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts
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….
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
A new report reveals that those same red state Republican voters who want the federal government cut to shreds are leeching substantially more assets from the federal government they want destroyed at the expense of blue states that are supporting them.
Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy dose of Draconian austerity. Those features epitomize the most recent budget proposal Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman officially and accurately labeled as a “trillion dollar con job.”
Scott Walker’s budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican “vision for America” and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with Republican legislatures. In Wisconsin, because Walker has driven the state’s deficit over the $2 billion mark with tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, he intends on slashing yet another $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system over two years, and for fun will make seriously Draconian cuts to health care and food stamps.
Healthcare has a lot in common with the environment, with Republicans, who know nothing about either, eager to pass legislation regarding both
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our “benevolent” overlords
His list of accomplishments, even minus any opposition, would be staggering. Considering the odds against him, they are truly monumental
One thing is obvious: Democrats are still allowing the media to parrot GOP narratives, and Democrats are still running away from their own ideas and into the arms of the tepid enemy of equivalency. Democrats are still afraid to be bold.
Barack Obama is still the President, and his administration’s record achievements over the past five-and-a-half years were squandered by Democratic candidates intent on appearing to be more like Republicans than Democrats affiliated with a President with a record of successes.
If you live in Wisconsin, you have heard of the alleged “Wisconsin comeback” touted by Governor Scott Walker. This is not to be confused with the Green Bay Packer comeback, and you should not relax. After their 1-2 start, QB Aaron Rodgers took to ESPN to tell fans, “Five letters here just for everybody out…
The man who shut down the government in an effort to stop funding to Obamacare/access to affordable healthcare is now confounded that government wasn’t entirely ready for action on Ebola.
The White House gives us facts; the GOP gives us fear-mongering. Which would you prefer as a response to the most deadly disease of modern times?
Republicans are saying Obama is underestimating threat of Ebola, which might explain why they’re refusing to fund a cure and provide healthcare
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
According to new research on America’s world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in 2014, the exceptionally rich United States has the distinction of the highest proportion of low-paying jobs among every developed nation in the world. The report is just in time for Republicans on the campaign trail to boast to their supporters that America is number one in having over a quarter of its workforce laboring for poverty wages.
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is “an act of true radicalism,” something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans “true radicals.”
While we are on the subject of “religious freedom,” that is, Christians having a unique right, a privileged place in this country far above all other belief systems – at least according to the Supreme Court – I thought I would mention that it has always struck me as odd that a religion – Christianity…
This is the GOP of the 21st century – secretive and extreme – a party that pretends to populism but which despises the populace and its rights
There were two reports out last week from a highly respected medical journal and an international organization that revealed America is a dangerous place to be an expectant mother, and for women-hating Republicans and Christian extremists it was welcomed news and a sign their anti-women efforts are a raging success.
The President — the one that the media keeps tittering Democrats must distance themselves from because he is so hated — has a 50% approval rating in the somewhat dubious Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll.
A plurality of registered voters in Kentucky have a favorable impression of Kynect. Kynect is Obamacare, by a different name.
Neglecting the conditions and healthcare of the poor has contributed to drug-resistant microbes which have reached crisis proportions.
Republicans are methodically defunding the Environmental Protection Agency to either abolish the agency or eliminate its ability to protect Americans from poison in the water they drink and toxins in the air they breathe.
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
As tragic as the number of Americans freezing to death is, it is the number of Americans who are homeless that should shame politicians, but Republicans are incapable of being shamed.
The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.
Every time Republicans decry President Obama’s economic policies as Marxist, socialist, or communist, they are in effect condemning the Pope, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, and Jesus Christ.
Liberals can take a moment to pat themselves on the back. There are poor people everywhere who are grateful for their help. Here’s my thanks.
In their blood lust to withhold healthcare, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans revealed that they hate the unborn at the same level they hate women and children.
As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger 48 million Americans are going to face when Republicans led by Paul Ryan decimate SNAP.
If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to decimate the economic life out of you.
The Heritage Foundation’s Tim Chapman says, “We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in the next election.”
Michele Bachmann took time off from election fraud efforts to have an Obamacare hissy-fit for the ages
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel insists “Mr. Cruz emasculated, delightfully, Obama’s political yes-bots on both sides of the aisle.”
The GOP’s debt ceiling demands are a composite Ryan budget, Koch policy meeting demands,”and ALEC social policy reform package all rolled into one ransom note, and the people are the big losers.
Ted Cruz, not content to show America he does not understand Dr. Seuss, showed us he understands neither facts nor history