Tag Archives: health care

William Barr on the DOJ’s attempt to destroy the ACA and leave 20 million Americans without health care

By Mark | April 9, 2019

[William Barr, looking like an actor auditioning for an Alka-Seltzer ad spot, testifies before the House Appropriations Committee.] Generally speaking, it is the job of the U.S. Department of Justice to defend the laws of the United States. This, however, is not the case with Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, which is actively engaged in […]

Posted in Health, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Department of Justice, health care reform, House Appropriations Committee, Matt Cartwright, Medicare, Medicare expansion, pre-existing conditions, Robert Mueller, William Barr | 10 Comments

The Barr memo isn’t the Mueller report

By Mark | March 26, 2019

I wanted to hold off on posting anything about the Mueller report until we actually had it in front of us. It’s looking now as though that may be several weeks away, in spite of the fact that members of the House voted unanimously to make it public. It would appear as though the White […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, border wall, collusion, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, executive power, exoneration, FBI, Hillary Clinton, House Intelligence Committee, innocence, James Comey, marketing, obstruction of justice, Preet Bharara, proclamations of innocence, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, truth, William Barr | 108 Comments

Trump breaks campaign promise, proposes federal budget that would cut Medicare by $845 billion and Medicaid by $241 billion

By Mark | March 11, 2019

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that, if elected president, he would cut neither Medicare nor Medicaid. [See video below.] Today, however, his administration proposed a federal budget that would cut Medicare by $845 billion, and Medicaid by $241 billion, while giving the Pentagon more than requested, and allocating $8.6 billion for the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, broken campaign promises, Department of Education, distraction, Donald Trump, infanticide, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, murder of children, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, social safety net, tax cuts | 46 Comments

2018 Election Day open thread

By Mark | November 6, 2018

9:00 AM I’m home with a sick kid, so thing may not go as planned, but I’m hoping to vote soon, and then head back home to do some remote phone banking through Swing Left for Amy McGrath, the Democratic candidate for Kentucky’s 6th district, which covers Frankfort, where I lived as a baby, Georgetown, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Adam Schiff, Amy McGrath, Andy LaBarre, Arlo, Atlanta, Bill Schuette, Black Panther Party, bowling, Brian Kemp, Clementine, Congress, Dave Trott, Debbie Stabenow, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Election Day, election interference, election reform, election results, elections, Elissa Slotkin, fake news, Georgia, get out the vote, Gretchen Driskell, Haley Stevens, House Intelligence Committee, Jeff Irwin, Kansas, Kentucky, Kris Kobach, Landline, Lena Epstein, Michigan's 11th congressional district, Michigan's 7th Congressional District, Michigan's 8th Congressional District, midterm elections, Mike Bishop, Pennsylvania, Peter Larson, phone banking, Piss Alley Rollers, Pita Pita, play structure, Pod Save America, political violence, racism, Riverside Park, Rust Belt, Sidetrack, Snellville, Stacey Abrams, Swing Left, Ted Cruz, Tim Walberg, voter fraud, voter suppression, voting, Wisconsin | 216 Comments

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, with neither a victim nor evidence, accuse Robert Mueller of “brutal rape”

By Mark | November 1, 2018

[Online activist Claude Taylor rides the Holliday Inn elevator with pro-Trump grifters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman after inflating his giant rat in the hotel’s parking lot.] I know I should be writing about the soaring federal deficit and Republican efforts to eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions, but I feel obligated to follow up on […]