U.S. government program of medical insurance for aged or disabled persons. Do not confuse with "medicaid."
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The video linked is courtesy of Brian Tyler Cohen who as many of you may know is doing a huge amount of amazing work. There is a YouTube video that is linked below, but the gist of it is a man named Bob thanked President Biden for lowering the cost of...
by Dem
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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Often lost in the accounts of the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration, when they are even noted by the MSM, is the influence of VP Kamala Harris on the administration’s policies. ...
by lpeacock
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Prices for prescription drugs in America average almost three times as much as the prices paid in other major nations around the world. Adding insult to injury, the companies that set those prices ...
by Gerald Scorse
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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— — I get as tired of reporting on the social menace, that IS Donald Trump, probably even more than you get tired reading about it. SOOOO, as the tagline for Monty Python goes … And Now for Something Completely Different: [...] So how do we get...
by jamess
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 04:03 PM PDT
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A cartoon by�Mike Luckovich.
by Mike Luckovich
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 04:30 AM PDT
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[If you appreciate my writing you can join my Substack where I am 5 articles ahead, but it have a free tier. Subscribe now Thanks.] Reposted from My Substack So in his big counter-response to Joe Biden’s whirlwind State of the Union Trump figures what...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
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— The more Trump tries to make himself relevant again — by calling-in to Business News shows — the more he shows how much he is NOT really up to the job. Trump floats 'cutting' retirement spending, drawing quick pushback from Biden www.nbcnews.com —...
by jamess
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 05:49 PM PDT
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I know many only read the headline of a story and come away with an opinion…. but I hope you, dear reader, will go a little deeper than that. Here’s the thing beyond the headline of this diary. Yes, there was a time when cutting Social Security would...
by NotSoNew
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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With the 2024 general election switching into high gear, the Biden rapid-response team is hitting Donald Trump hard on a key issue: Social Security and Medicare. Trump appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Rural Hospitals Under Fire: National Single Payer and Global Budgets Can Save Them Webinar, Wed. March 13, 2024, 8pmE Sponsored by National Single Payer Speakers: Journalist Maureen Tkacik Health Justice Monitor Editor, Jim Kahn, MD. REGISTER HERE...
by kaytillow
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 12:59 PM PST
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Well, probably not. I just noticed a story on CNBC that the national debt is now increasing $1 trillion every 100 days. That would mean the National Debt is a runaway train at this point, and it doesn’t matter what budget cuts are made to the social...
by FogBelter
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 08:56 AM PST
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My wife and I are retired and have Medicare through an insurance company. Medicare gets paid from our Social Security so the private insurance co. is getting paid by SS funds which is money we contributed to the program over the years of working. We...
by hardlocked
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 03:02 PM PST
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A new surve y from Navigator Research doesn’t just show how strongly voters feel about protecting Social Security and Medicare, but it also shows how much voters don’t trust Republican lawmakers ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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My studio engineer got an unsolicited shipment, Cologuard. Of course, because he is on Medicare, it is likely a scam to increase sales, not what is best for our healthcare. OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS A FAILURE. Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....
by Egberto Willies
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 08:07 PM PST
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It is time to challenge the very existence of the Medicare Advantage scam, not have CMS keep trying to fix it. The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid) has run a failed 20-year "Medicare Advantage" experiment increasingly enriching for-profit health...
by lynnmarlton
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53 PM PST
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By� Arthur Allen
KFF Health News
Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat his multiple myeloma, a blood cancer he ...
by KFF Health News
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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It’s easy to see when someone does something that benefits us, but sometimes we neglect to take note of those who tried to stop that good stuff from happening. That’s glaringly apparent when we look at the U.S. Congress where, for the most part,...
by RickElia
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 05:33 AM PST
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The 2024 campaign has begun. Joe Biden, despite his accomplishments, is flagging in the polls. We Democrats have 20 Senate seats up for re-election and the Republicans in charge of the House holding the nation hostage over the budget and trying to...
by 40ford
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 07:57 AM PST
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Republicans just cannot give up on their dream of ending Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Nor can they give up on the idea that they’ll be shielded from the voters’ blowback of cutting ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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This is part one of a two-part series on racism in health care. Part 2 is here. Despite being the sole high-income nation in the world without universal health care, the United States government refuses to recognize basic medical care as a fundamental...
by SemDem
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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