Tag: Medicaid
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Boy, Republicans passed one really nasty tax bill!
I mentioned recently about the audaciousness of the new tax bill expected to become law soon. Some years back I also mentioned that Republicans are basically sadists. This newest version of the bill that passed Congress this week proves Republicans have doubled down on both their bill’s audacity and its egregious sadism. I really hope…
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Slowly boiling the frog
Yesterday House Speaker Paul Ryan finally released a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, i.e. Obamacare. The bill came out of the Capitol basement, literally, where it was under lock and key. Wonks are still sorting through the bill, which hasn’t been scored by the Congressional Budget Office. The plan is not to repeal…
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Appalled
If you need more proof that our social fabric is unwinding, this story “Health Care Creates Dilemma for Tennessee’s Poor” today on NPR’s All Things Considered should scare you and make you very angry. You can read the story on the NPR site, but please listen to it online if you can. As shocking as…
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Viagra for sex offenders?
In 2003 forty five million Americans could not obtain, did not choose to purchase or simply could not afford health insurance. That’s 15.6 percent of the United States population. Some of these people may be here illegally but most likely they are decent, hard working Americans who were priced out of the health insurance market.…
Occam's Razor 