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Happy Friday! I got an email the other day offering Trumpcare policies. I have medicaid, and don’t currently need a new policy, but since that could change with this administration, I decided to ...
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 09:55 PM PST
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The health care industry, and particularly CEOs, are breathing a sigh of relief over the Democrats’ big win in the midterms. They foresee that "the law providing individual coverage to more than ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 09:30 AM PST
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Throughout the duration of the 2018 campaign, health care was the key issue for voters and the key issue for Democrats. It gave them the House of Representatives with a net gain of 33 seats and the chance of even more gains with eight races still...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 08:11 AM PST
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Collu On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 14th Congressional District, Randy Weber, which is also the former Congressional seat held by...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Nov 11, 2018 at 08:34 AM PST
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About 370,000 people signed up for plans on Healthcare.gov in the first week of open enrollment which started on November 1. That’s down substantially from the 601,462 that enrolled in the first week in 2017. So far, 89,000 new consumers signed up this...
by Joan McCarter
11 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 12:34 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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It was in both 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, Martha Roby, the current U.S. House Representative for Alabama’s 2nd...
by republicinsanity
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on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 07:18 PM PST
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When Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur took on the responsibility of creating the amendment that allowed Trumpcare to push through, he thought that pretending he was a bipartisan type of guy would immunize him from his own betrayed constituents. He was...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 05:59 PM PST
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Talk about panic in the GOP. This is what they’ve been reduced to. Trump. Trump telling voters that Democrats have to be beat because they’ll “obliterate” Obamacare:
Nuts, right? But it gets nuttier as he realizes that obliterating Obamacare is...
by Joan McCarter
58 comments
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 07:53 AM PST
with 76 Recommends
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The one demographic that can always be relied upon to vote in midterms and presidential years and in state and local elections, always, are seniors. They've also always voted more for Republicans than Democrats, but 2018 could change that. The issue of...
by Joan McCarter
76 comments
on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 01:32 PM PST
with 118 Recommends
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How many times in your life have you heard "this is the most important election of our lifetimes"? Well, those elections were all small beans compared to this one. This is the election that can either halt our slide to authoritarianism or continue let...
by Joan McCarter
11 comments
on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 11:23 AM PST
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Illinois’ 12th Congressional District, Mike Bost, a man whose screaming, flailing, paper-punching meltdowns...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 01:04 PM PST
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The degree of commitment this year's crop of Republican candidates has for just brazen lying is astounding even by Republican standards. Granted, they had eight years worth of practice, what with cooking up all those lies about how the Affordable Care...
by Joan McCarter
30 comments
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 10:43 AM PDT
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Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) has one hell of a closing ad in the last days of this election cycle, hitting the issue that everyone is talking about, for real. No, not the caravan. Their health care. His opponent, Republican businessman Mike Braun has been...
by Joan McCarter
190 comments
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 08:33 AM PDT
with 302 Recommends
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Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) rates himself quite the health policy expert, since he's a gastroenterologist from his previous professional life. But having a profound knowledge of the human gut does not mean one can translate that knowledge to the guts...
by Joan McCarter
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 08:59 AM PDT
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On this date in 2015, 2016, and 2017, that we published our first two “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiles of the U.S. House Representative from California’s 23rd Congressional District, Kevin McCarthy, who has served for it since 2007, and...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 04:24 AM PDT
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Rep. Tom MacArthur was the only New Jersey Republican in the House to vote for both Trumpcare and the tax bill. For those reasons, he is in a very tight race right now against Democrat Andy Kim. That made a recent telephone town hall he did with 1,200...
by Joan McCarter
25 comments
on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 12:24 PM PDT
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Another day, another total and complete denial of reality from the toddler-in-chief.
Trump personally approved the Justice Department’s decision to not only decline to defend the law when Texas’ and a bunch of other states’ attorneys general (hi,...
by Joan McCarter
28 comments
on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 09:25 AM PDT
with 67 Recommends
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Here’s a blast from the Republicans’ lying past, courtesy Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt: they’ve been lying to America about their intent to protect people with pre-existing conditions for months and months:
We looked at that...
by Joan McCarter
23 comments
on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 07:17 AM PDT
with 91 Recommends
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There are two things to know about Republicans when they talk about protecting your health care and your pre-existing conditions coverage this election: 1) they are lying; 2) they will take your health care away if they are re-elected.
Setting the...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 09:07 AM PDT
with 62 Recommends
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Here’s a message from the soon-to-be-once-again Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi:
Since the waste of skin and oxygen in the White House won’t do this, we have to. It’s time to get enrolled for health insurance if you don’t have it and...
by Joan McCarter
5 comments
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 11:22 AM PST
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