While the health care senate vote last night was nail biting, serious stuff, there was an interaction on Twitter that made me laugh out loud for several minutes. Just after the vote went through and the Republicans failed again to dismantle health care for millions of Americans, ...read more
We'll have more on this tomorrow, but great news for the millions of Americans who stood to lose their health care during the epic drama that unfolded in the Senate tonight. From CNN: The Senate has dealt a devastating setback to the Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, ...read more
John McCain has brain cancer and if the diagnosis is correct, his remaining life expectancy can range anywhere between 12 to 60 months in the best case scenario. As an eighty year old man who was in the armed services, fought for his country in Vietnam, suffered through torture ...read more
Every rational analysis of every version of Trumpcare the GOP has attempted to replace Obamacare with leads to the horrifying prospect of thousands of Americans dying because they can no longer afford health insurance. These are not fictional statistics, but real world effects ...read more
Over the days since Mitch McConnell made the super-secret Senate healthcare bill public he has witnessed a backlash that has been at least as large as the one that followed the release of the House version of their "repeal and replace" Obamacare legislation. Part of that ...read more
You really don't need to know too much about the Senate Health Care Bill that has now been shelved until at least July 11th. Why? Because there really isn't too much to it, as Paul Krugman pointed out on Twitter today in a very simple yet brutal chart: You can discount Trump ...read more
David France’s extraordinary documentary (and book) How to Survive a Plague chronicles the history of ACT UP, the group of HIV+/AIDS-infected gay men who fought to make drugs more affordable to those suffering from a condition the government laughed off as a “gay plague.” In ...read more
As you likely know by now the Senate version of Trumpcare, authored entirely in secret by a cabal of white male Republicans and rolled out just days before the vote, contains breathtakingly massive cuts to Medicaid, the very popular health insurance program for low-income ...read more
Elizabeth Warren took to social with a video yesterday to lay waste to the Republican health care bill proposed by the Senate yesterday -- a bill negotiated almost completely in secret for several weeks. Warren labeled the bill "blood money" that pays for tax cuts to the rich ...read more
