Tag Archives: healthcare

The Republicans attempt to jam through Amy Coney Barrett as the nation burns and Giuliani fondles himself

By Mark | October 22, 2020

It’s hard, when presented with a story about Trump campaign surrogate Rudy Giuliani being caught on tape fondling himself in the presence of a young woman in a hotel room, to focus on anything else. Sadly, though, there are even more obscene things taking place in America at the moment. This morning, with the election […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, abortion rights, Adam Schiff, Affordable Care Act, Amy Coney Barrett, bigotry, blackmail, Borat, Chuck Schumer, court packing, COVID-19, Donald Trump, First Amendment, handmade, homophobia, pandemic, pedophilia, People of Praise, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, Rudy Giuliani, Russia, Sacha Baron Cohen, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court | 23 Comments

The question is, can we kill the Senate health care bill before the Senate health care bill can kill us?

By Mark | June 26, 2017

I’m not one to underestimate the political cunning Mitch McConnell, but it certainly looks like the Senate version of Trumpcare may be destined to go down in flames. [Which isn’t to say, of course, that we should stop fighting. If anything, it means that we should redouble our efforts.] Not only has it been slammed […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AARP, AMA, American Medical Association, Better Care Reconciliation Act, CBO, Congressional Budget Office, health care reform, Kochcare, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Trumpcare | 9 Comments

Marking the first day of the Trump administration with Debbie Dingell and Gretchen Whitmer, firsthand accounts of the DC, Lansing and Ypsilanti women’s marches, and a discussion about the role of community-based art in improving society… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 19, 2017

This weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, our first under the Trump administration, will be told in two parts. First, we will be talking with people on the ground in D.C., and elsewhere, about the response to the Trump inauguration, with special emphasis on how women are standing up and letting it be known […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, anti-immigration, art, Barack Obama, birth control, civil rights, DC, Debbie Dingell, Desirae Simmons, Donald Trump, family planning, Frederick Douglass, gay rights, Gloria Allred, grab them by the pussy, Gretchen Whitmer, immigration, inauguration, inauguration day, Lansing, LGBTQ, Lynne Settles, manifesto, marches, Martin Luther King Day, Matt Siegfried, misogyny, Nick Azzaro, old white men making decisions on women's health, Planned Parenthood, pro-life, Rebecca Gregory, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, Roseville, sex education, Summer Zervos, The Apprentice, The Perils of the Republic, The Saturday Six Pack, violence, violence against women, women, women's health, Women's March on Washington, women's rights, workers rights, Ypsi High | 18 Comments

While we were making golden shower jokes, the Senate voted to kill the Affordable Care Act, setting in motion a chain of events that will leave 30 million Americans without healthcare

By Mark | January 12, 2017

As we were all fully engaged in discussing presidential water sports yesterday, and whether or not it would even be possible for a germaphobe-in-chief to property enjoy a golden shower, the real work of government marched on. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s allegedly racist nominee for Attorney General, after exaggerating the extent to which he was involved […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Americans for Tax Reform, Ben Carson, blind trust, Bob Corker, budget resolution, call to action, Exxon, Grover Norquist, health insurance, health insurance companies, HUD, Jeff Jeans, Lamar Alexander, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, Planned Parenthood, preexisting conditions, Rand Paul, repeal and delay, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Ryan Ellis, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Senate, tax breaks, Tom Price, Vladimir Putin | 33 Comments

Armed with just one of Trump’s tweets, Bernie Sanders attempts to fight off the forces of darkness that are massing to repeal Obamacare

By Mark | January 4, 2017

I’m usually pretty wary of gimmicks, but I think the fact that Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the U.S. Senate this afternoon, during a debate on the repeal of Obamacare, accompanied by one of Donald Trump’s magnified tweets, was one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen in a long time. The Trump […]