My Fellow Americans I am sickened, sickened by what I am learning about the partisan swamp here in Washington DC. Where I grew up in New York and even as a businessman, I had thought that Republicans and Democrats could work together for the benefit of their country. I am a Republican but I am [&h[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obamacare’
March 23rd, 2017 - 6:26 pm § in America, Donald Trump
TRUMP INSISTS ON A VOTE
Despite the apparent lack of enough votes for TRUMPCARE, the Trump White House is done negotiating over repealing and replacing Obamacare. What is … or ought to be …now apparent is that everyone believes in universal healthcare! The arguments are about how to pay for it and what is inc[...]
March 23rd, 2017 - 8:28 am § in Politics
GOP FIGHTS TO HERD ITS HERD TO THE HEALTHCARE CORRAL
GOP STILL HUNTING VOTES ON BRINK OF HO– USE HEALTH CARE VOTE WASHINGTON (AP) – Showdown day at hand, Republicans remained short of votes Thursday for their health care overhaul and were hoping President Donald Trump would close the deal with a bloc of conservatives at a White House meeti[...]
March 19th, 2017 - 12:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
White House on Trumpcare: ‘The only way to get truly universal care is to throw people in jail if they don’t have it.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney threw the promise that was made by none other than President Donald Trump himself. “We don’t have universal ― the only way to have universal care, if you stop to think about it, is to force people to buy it under penalty of law,” Mulvaney said Sund[...]
March 18th, 2017 - 7:39 am § in Politics
The irony of Republican disapproval of Obamacare
The Democrat’s version of health insurance would have been cheaper, simpler and more popular. But we enacted the Republican version. So why are they so upset? Because it an achievement for the Obama administration.[...]
March 13th, 2017 - 1:56 pm § in America, Donald Trump
BREAKING NEWS: Under TRUMPCARE 52 million people would be uninsured in 2026 based on CBO’s calculations (28 million are uninsured right now)
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office analysis says that “Trumpcare” will lead to 14 million fewer Americans with health insurance by 2018 and 24 million by 2026, “Some of those people would choose not to have insurance because they chose to be covered by insurance under c[...]
March 13th, 2017 - 2:45 am § in Misc.
US HEALTH SPENDING
Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier The graph below shows the relationship between what a country spends on health per person and life expectancy in that country between 1970 and 2014 for a… OURWORLDINDATA.ORG[...]
February 11th, 2017 - 1:05 am § in Misc.
AFTER TRUMP: A Healthcare Story
Barbara Stoner This, from a friend, with his permission: So, a big part of health care costs are radiology tests like CT scans and MRI’s. So insurance companies hire executives whose job it is to get those costs down. Their strategy has generally involved making every high-dollar imaging st[...]
January 15th, 2017 - 2:46 pm § in Politics
Repeal and replace
How the Sacramento Bee’s editorial cartoonist views it: [...]
November 20th, 2016 - 1:10 am § in Misc.
Call Paul, Support Obamacare
Paul Ryan is conducting a phone poll on the ACA (Obamacare), hoping to hear overwhelming popular opposition to it. If you would like to express your support for the Affordable Care Act, call (202) 225-3031. Press 2 to weigh in on the issue. You’ll hear a brief recording about HR-3762, Paul Rya[...]